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A terrific collection of uniformly bound early English texts, published for the Early English Text Society. An impressive collection of twenty-two volumes from the Early English Text Society, a society founded in 1864 dedicated to the editing and publication of early English texts. The publication is noted for being the first to print many important English manuscripts, including Cotton Nero A.x, which contains Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other poems. This set was previously held at the Chiswick Free Public Library and therefore has the relative bookplates and check-out cards tipped in to the front pastedown and front free endpaper.Uniformly bound in half cloth, with marbled paper covered boards. With the original purple wraps bound in.Includes a pleasing variety of Middle and Old English texts, including a very scarce copy of John Lydgate's poem 'The Temple of Glass', which was written in the late 15th century.With several editors, including Frederick J. Furnivall, an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary as well as for providing monumental contributions to early English literature, notably his parallel text edition of 'The Canterbury Tales'.The entirety of this set comprises the following: 'Alexander and Dindimus: or, The Letters of Alexander to Dindimus, King of the Brahmans, with the Replies of Dindimus; Being a Second Fragment of the Alliterative Romance of Alisaunder' Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat (1865) 'The Book of Quinte Essence or The Fifth Being; That it to say, Man"s Heaven' Edited by Federick J. Furnivall (1866) 'The Stacions of Rome and the Pilgrims Sea-Voyage with Clene Maydenhod' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall (1867) 'The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, Compiled for the Instruction of his Daughters' Translated by Thomas Wright (1868) 'Caxton"s Book of Curtesye, Printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A. D.' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall (1868) 'The Romance of the Cheulere Assigne' Edited by Henry H. Gibbs (1868) 'Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert): A Booke of Precedence, The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c.; Maxims, Indgate"s Order of Fools, A Poem on Heraldry, Occlebe on Lords" Men, &c.' Edited by F. J. Furnivall; With Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy by W. M. Rossetti (1869) 'Bernardus de cura rei famuliaris, with some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c.' Edited by J. Rawson Lumby (1870) 'De Liflade of St. Juliana' Translated by Rev. O. Cockayne and Edmund Brock (1872) 'The Select Works of Robert Crowley; Namely, his Epigrams, A. D. 1550; Voyce of the Last Trumpet etc.' Edited by J. M. Cowper (1872) 'A Treatise on The Astrolabe; addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer' Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat (1872) 'England in the reign of King Henry the Eighth Part I: Starkey"s Life and Letters' Edited by Sidney J. Herrtage (1878) 'The Three Kings of Cologne; An Early English Translation of "Historia Trium Regum" by John of Hildesheim' Edited by C. Horstmann (1886) 'The Curial made by maystere Alain Charretier, Translated thus in Engyssh by William Carton 1484' Collated by Prof. Paul Meyer and Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall (1888) 'Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance, From a Manuscript in the Cambridge University Library' With introduction, notes and glossarial index by the Rev. W. W. Skeat (1889) 'Arthur; A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall (1889) 'Caxton"s Eneydos 1490: Englisht from the French Liure Des Eneydes, 1483' Edited by the Late W. T. Culley and F. J. Furnivall (1890) 'Caxton"s Blanchardyn and Eglantine c.1489' Edited by Dr. Leon Kellner (1890) 'Lydgate"s Temple of Glass' Edited by J. Schick (1891) 'Orthographie and Congrnitie of the Britan Tongue; A Treates, noe shorter th.
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