libelle englyshe polycye 1436 poem de warner sir george (4 résultats)

Etat : Poor. No jacket. Scuffs and storage marks. Water stain at base outer corner, both boards. Spine discoloured. Inscriptions on ffep. Pencil notes and underlining/highlighting, throughout. Text all readable. Mild tanning and foxing.

* Donald Dunrod Lindsay's Copy.* First Warner Edition, gilt cloth. 4to, total c.pp182 uncut, binding bit marked & dulled, some foxing or soiling of text, stout copy. With 6 plates, of which four show coin-like seals and medals. ** First modern scholarly edition [with 124pp intro & notes etc] of this important poem. Written during the Wars Of The Roses and 'remarkable as an early attempt to show the political & commercial advantages to be obtained by securing command of the sea'. *** Endpaper with neat pencil signature of D. D. Lindsay, Trinity College. This is probably Donald Dunrod Lindsay 1910 - 2002. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and had a distinguished teaching career, culminating in the headmastership of Malvern College, for which he was awarded the CBE. Lindsay is represented in the National Portrait Gallery by a studio portrait by photographers Elliot & Fry. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 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).

* Sir George Francis Hill's Copy.* First Warner Edition, green gilt cloth fine and bright. 4to, total c.pp182 uncut. Unusually this copy still with the original drab brown dws - a little nicked & scuffed - lettered in blue. Excellent copy : with 6 plates. ** First modern scholarly edition [with 124pp intro & notes etc] of this important poem. Written during the Wars Of The Roses and 'remarkable as an early attempt to show the political & commercial advantages to be obtained by securing command of the sea'. *** With the attractive bookplate of Sir George Francis Hill 1867 - 1948, Director of the British Museum and a distinguished scholar and author of a number of books on coinage and on art and sculpture. Four of the illustrations in this book show coin-like seals and medals. Hill is particularly known for his work on Renaissance medals, and in particular on the Italian 14th century artist Pisanello. Hill's elegant bookplate here incorporates a Pisanello-style medal or rondel with the words Opus Pisani Pictoris. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.