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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2 Volume set including Volume 1 Part 1 (published in 1976, includes dust jacket) and Volume 1 Part 2 (published in 1980, no dust jacket). 3 fold-outs in Part 1 and 1 fold out in Part 2. No markings.

Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos (frontispiece & three foldouts), minor foxing (top edge, rear pastedown, reverse side jacket), jacket scuffed (edgewear, flap price-clipped). 359 pp. 'Dives and Pauper' is an encyclopaedic prose commentary on the Biblical Ten Commandments, cast as a dialogue between a rich layman (Dives) and his instructor, a poor mendicant friar (Pauper). It was composed about 1405 - 1410 by an unknown author, and addresses theological debates of the turbulent period of English church history with unusual directness and complexity. This copy is the first volume of a 3-volume set, containing the first half of the text of this classic document (that is, Volume 1, Part 1, not Part 2). (No 275 in the Early English Text Society series.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Size: Octavo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 78152.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Name of former owner on both flyleaves. Gilt lettering on spines and front boards, with gilt EECS logo on front board as well. Both volumes have the Middle English on the left and modern translation on the right. Part I : xvii, 359 p. w/ frontis, fold out illus. of manuscripts, footnotes. Part II : 331 p. w/ footnotes, 1 fold out illus., corrigenda to part I. Dives and Pauper is a long work by an unknown author, written in the first decade of the 15th c. It discusses the practical meaning of the Ten Commandments, touching on a wide variety of contemporary topics from war to astrology, a sort of compendium.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. Near Fine. First Edition. Jacket Condition: 'Near Fine' Condition: 'As New' Notes: Binding is square, tight, and solid. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean and not bent. Clean, rich brown cloth boards with bright, complete and solid, copper foil lettering and design. Jacket would be fine but for sunned spine. …