richardson octavia editor (2 risultati)

Soft cover. London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner & Co., 1885, 1885. Soft cover. first thus. Pages xxviv ,321-667,approx. 5 3/4" by 8 7/8". Englisht From the French by William Caxton. and printed by Him About 1489. Edited From the Unique Copy, Now In the Possession of Earl Spencer, with an Introduction, by Octavia Richardson. Lilac paper covers, with former owner name on front cover, soiling and edge wear; pages unopened, Good. 051705A.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 2 volumes bound as 1 ; 23 cm.; OCLC 1507226 ; LC PR1119 .E5 no. 44-45 ; LCCN 12017832 ; red half-leather with five bands, marbled endpapers ; top edge gilt; contemporary bookplate of The Newberry Library, Chicago ; front and back boards loose, repaired ; "Caxton's " right pleasant and goodly historie of the Four Sons of Aymon " is englisht from the French prose romance " Les Quatre Filz Aymon , " which is a rendering more or less free of an ancient chanson de geste bearing the same name , though more often entitled " Renaud de Montauban . " The earliest extant text of the chanson is a remaniment of the end of the 12th century. The conversion of the poem into prose was not accomplished before the close of the 14th century . None of the prose manuscripts are earlier than the 15th century . Of them the British Museum has three MSS . , all in writing of the 15th century . In one , a large vellum folio , about 1445 A.D. , the story is illustrated by nine miniatures ; in the borders of the first appear the arms of John Talbot , first Earl of Shrewsbury , and those of Henry VI . and his Queen Margaret of Anjou empaled . It is similar to the usual printed edition , from the third chapter of that edition to the end . Another manuscript , a vellum folio of the 15th century , is also a prose version , to which is prefixed a fragment of a metrical version of the story , the text of which closely resembles that published by Bekker in his Introduction to " Fierbras " ; another metrical fragment is added at the conclusion of the prose tale , which contains the adventures of Maugis , how he became Pope under the name of Innocent , hears Charlemagne's confession , and is stifled by the Emperor in a cave near Naples . " ; FAIR. Book.