9780197222911 - Octovian (EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY ORIGINAL SERIES, Band 289) (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 289; 244 pages; 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. [1] This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two new-born sons into exile and likely death. After many adventures, the family are at last reunited and the guilty mother-in-law appropriately punished.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover without jacket, gilt to front and spine. Very good condition. Bumps to spine ends and leading corners of boards. Spine is a little faded and light foxing and scuff to page block head. Pages are sound and internally clean. TA. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Jacket Condition: 'No dust jacket' Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Binding is square, tight, and solid. Rich brown cloth board's tips are mildly bumped; subtle wear to head and tail of spine; gilt is complete, solid, and bright. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent. Frontispiece is in Fine condition.