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Zustand: New. In English.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. The 1975 critical text, "here printed for the first time and with a scholarly apparatus". We have Vols. I and II (of III all told) of the critical text. Both volumes tight and Near Fine (tiny former owner names at the front free endpapers) in bright, Near Fine dustjackets. Thick octavos, the English translations (done in 1398-9 by John Trevisa) appearing at the versos, the original text ( in its Latin) appearing along the facing rectos. (From the dustjacket front flaps: "The Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus compiled his encyclopedia c. 1230, and from the late Middle Ages until the early sixteenth century it was the most popular work of its kind, especially in England. It is popularly and deservedly known as 'Shakespeare's Encyclopedia'".).…