Medieval History

B&w frontispiece from an illuminated manuscript and 4 litho plates from drawings, xvi & 540 pp, dark blue buckram cloth, spine a little sunned (see picture), corners slightly bumped, foxing to frontispiece and the uncut edges of the pages, but binding and general condition very good, Cambridge University Press 1918

22.4 x 14 cm, 780g, no ISBN

The compiler was a lecturer and later a Fellow of St Catherine’s College at Cambridge University, and specialised in extracting passages and fragments from medieval texts to illustrate life at the time.  While the passages in foreign languages have been translated into modern English, the majority of the remaining passages are in the original medieval English.  See below an extract from the compiler’s preface.

Reprinted in 2009 by BiblioLife and available in hardback at £29.99 and paperback at £20.99.  This original copy is in a proper sewn binding in durable cloth, and will probably last another hundred years . . .