The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye. A Poem on the Use of Sea-Power 1436. Edited with a lengthy introduction by Sir George Warner. (WITH ALS)

SIR GEORGE WARNER.

Verlag: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1926

Beschreibung

First edition thus. Small square 4to. lvi, 126pp. Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, with blind-stamped borders to the upper and lower boards. With two frontispiece manuscript reproductions and four plates. Cloth at the backstrip lightly toned. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper. Laid-in is a hand-written letter from the editor presenting this copy to Shakespearian- and English literature scholar Sir Israel Gollancz. Libel of English Policy is an anonymous fifteenth-century poem consisting of about 1,100 lines in rhyming couplets exhorting England's strength as a sea-power. This George Warner edition is widely considered the best (although in his introduction Warner does erroneously attribute the poem to Adam Moleyns, a theory subsequently dismantled by G.A.Holmes in 1961). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ARC93882

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Titel: The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye. A Poem on ...

Verlag: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Erscheinungsdatum: 1926

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

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Auflage: 1st Edition