The Latin Poems Commonly Attributed to Walter Mapes, Collected and Editied By Thomas Wright. .

xlix, 371 pages; bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine and a design embossed on the covers. Former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown "Ben & Mary Glen Chitty", also the stamp of "Braithet Llewelyn Fewster". Mapes was a favorite under King Henry II of England and archdeacon of Oxford who wrote poetry in Latin. He seems to have died in 1210. He is well known to the lovers of Middle Age romance as the composer of an important portion of the cycle of King Arthur of his knights." Some cracking along the inside of the front cover, else a very good clean copy.