[ANON; BOURDILLON, Francis William (ed.)]. Aucassin & Nicolette: An Old-French Love Story. Edited & Translated by Francis William Bourdillon, M.A.; the Text Collated Afresh With the Manuscript at Paris, the Translation Revised & the Introduction Rewritten. London: Macmillan and Co., MDCCCXCVII. [1897].
SECOND EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (17.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm); pp. lxxii, 229, [1]. English text, edited and translated by Francis William Bourdillon. Handsomely bound by Hatchards in half morocco gilt; cloth sides; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; rubricated musical notation; printed footnotes; bibliography, glossary & appendices to rear. Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure. Trivial shelf wear to extremities. Interior very well-preserved with two previous owner names.
Notes: A beautifully bound second edition of Francis William Bourdillon's translation of the medieval French tale 'Aucassin and Nicolette', an anonymous fictional story from the late 12th or early 13th century; being a unique example of a chantefable, or a "sung story", combining prose and verse (similar to a prosimetrum).
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