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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. "This poem of unknown authorship is printed by permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury from a manuscript in the library at Lambeth Palace, the volume from which it is extracted was written early in the XV century. Text in Middle English. The borders, initials, and ornaments designed and cut on wood and the whole printed ad bound by H. D. & H. G. Webb at their press at Caradoc, Bedford Park, Chiswick, finished March MDCCCCII, CCL copies on paper & XX on vellum." This small octavo volume is bound in what appears to be tan pigskin with black lettering on the front cover and a blind-stamped crucifix in the center of the front cover. Black illustration and borders; black and red type. One of 270 copies. Condition: about one-half inch of the top of the spine has been chipped away; there is a one-inch split at the bottom of the front outer hinge; minor scuffing and wear to the rest of the binding; else very good.