HEIREFTER FILLOWIS THE QUAIR MAID BE KING IAMES OF SCOTLAND THE FIRST CALLIT THE KINGIS QUAIR AND MAID QUHEN HIS MAIESTIE WES IN INGLAND [THE KINGIS QUAIR]

STEELE, Robert (edited by) 1860-1944 | JAMES I, King of Scotland (1394-1437) | RICKETTS, Charles (1866-1931)

Published by printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon and Ricketts London and John Lane New York, 1903

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Composed in a font called the King's Fount, designed by Charles Ricketts, and printed under his supervision at the Ballantyne Press, London. Medium 8vo (9.25 x 6 ins) pp. i-iv v-liv lv-lvi in 28 leaves, six blank leaves composed of the same paper. One of 260 copies printed on paper, in addition to ten on vellum. pp liv. Printed in red and black. Some pages uncut, deckled edges. Light blue boards with oatmeal spine, title label laid down on upper board. Spine a touch dust stained, slight browning to endpapers and pastedowns. An about fine copy. THE KINGUS QUAIR is a poem of clear Chaucerian descent, written in the same seven-line stanzas as Trailus and Criseyde, that marks the beginning of a Chaucerian movement in the literature of Scotland. The poem exists in only one manuscript, MS Arch. Selden B. 24 of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, where it is twice attributed to King James I of Scotland (1424-1437). Indeed, it is due to the connection with James that the particular seven-line stanza format in which the poem is written is now known as 'rhyme royal.' Rickett's prefaced this edition with quotations taken from Rossetti's historical ballad 'The Kings Tradgedy'. Richett's arranged to have the Vale Press publications printed at the Ballantyne Press as private press books by a carefully chosen selection of compositors, readers, pressmen and binders freed from the everyday demands of the press. Seller Inventory # 17988

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Title: HEIREFTER FILLOWIS THE QUAIR MAID BE KING ...

Publisher: printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon and Ricketts London and John Lane New York

Publication Date: 1903

Binding: Hardcover

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