The Castle of Love: A Poem.Now first printed from Inedited Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century

GROSSETESTE, Robert

Published by [Printed by C. & J. Adlard] For private circulation only, Brixton Hill, 1849

About this Item

Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the publisher (ten of which printed on thick paper); this copy is number 66, on thin paper. vii, [1], 80pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, short tear to margin of p.51-52, else internally clean and crisp. A limited edition, printed for private circulation, of an early English translation of the Anglo-Norman original manuscript of theologian and Bishop of Lincoln Robert Grosseteste's (c.1170-1253) 'Chasteau d'amour'; edited by antiquary and literary scholar James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889). The Castle of Love is an allegorical poem on Genesis and redemption designed to provide a lay audience with an outline of Christian theology. Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. Size: Quarto.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Castle of Love: A Poem.Now first printed from Inedited Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century
• Publisher: [Printed by C. & J. Adlard] For private circulation only, Brixton Hill
• Publication Date: 1849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)