Translated and Edited with Introduction by Harold Child
Aucassin and Nicolete Translated and Edited with Introduction by Harold Child
A & C Black, 1911.
First edition with Anne Anderson's illustrations. 4to. Cream cloth lettered in gilt, and decorated in blue. Top edge gilt. Six colour plates by Anne Anderson. A very good copy, tanning to spine and a couple of small holes to the frontispiece's tissue guard. Clipped inscription from front endpaper.
A retelling of the 13th century French chantefable (a story told in alternating sections of sung verse and recited prose), described by Child as "the best love story in the world". [Introduction].
Stock ID: 41869
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