The Quatrefoil of Love. Edited from Brit. Mus. MS. Add. 31042 with collations from Bodl. MS. Add. A 106.
Thornton, Robert [of East Newton, Yorkshire & 15th century compiler] Gollancz, Sir Israel, and Weale, Magdalene M. [transcribers]
Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, for The Early English Text Society, London, 1935
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Famous for its romantic references to quatrefoils, or four-leaf clovers, this fifteenth-century Early English MS of 40 English poems and romances transcribed from at least two original MSS copies. Working copy with ex-library stamps to t.p. (and reverse), front paste-down (small neat numbers), half-title and cover (see pic.); the body of text being clear and clean. [i-vii],viii-xxiv, 1-48+8pp Catalogue of the The Early English Text Society. Includes a 12-page Glossary and 2pp. about the Society and its Officers and Committee (named). Brown boards with gilt lettering and Society device to upper board along with conspicious library markings. BLDSC pencil cataloguing detail to t.p. and half-title but otherwise clean. Illustrated MS frontispiece. Original Series No. 195, 1935 (for 1934), price 5s. Forty 15c. poems or romances with notes, linguistic transcriptions and glossary. The Quatrefoil of Love being "The Four Leaves of the Truelove" or four-leaf clover. "If you find an even ash-leaf, Or a four-leaved clover, You'll be bound to see your true-love, Ere the day be over." A clean and tight working copy. 50% price reduction applied. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Quatrefoil of Love. Edited from Brit. Mus. MS. Add. 31042 with collations from Bodl. MS. Add. A 106.
- Author
- Thornton, Robert [of East Newton, Yorkshire & 15th century compiler] Gollancz, Sir Israel, and Weale, Magdalene M. [transcribers]
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, for The Early English Text Society, London
- Publication year
- 1935
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Stoneman Press
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