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Ballades: French and English.
London: Allan Wingate, 1946. [Late Mediaeval French Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.96. With occasional reproductions of the original fifteenth-century woodcuts. A dual-language edition, showing the original French on one side, and English translations on the other. One of 5000 copies on ordinary paper. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket showing a woodcut, priced at 8/6. Lightly toned, and lightly rubbed to cloth. Jacket toned and a little spotted, with heavy wear and some chipping to spine and all edges. Large closed tears to spine, with a loss to head. Good. Songs of life and love by the famous French poet, scoundrel, and petty criminal. Translations provided by various authors, including Lewis Wharton; John Heron Lepper; A.C. Swinburne; Richard Aldington; H. de Vere Stacpoole; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others. Item #58033
Price: £38.00
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