Medieval Literature

B&w illustrations from illuminated manuscripts, old prints and modern photographs, bibliography & index, xiv & 258 pp, brown boards in d/w, very slight scratches to bottom of front board, otherwise in fine condition, Granta Books 2009

20 x 15 cm, 480g, ISBN 978 1 84708 062 2

See below the description from the dustwrapper flap, and extracts from reviews from the rear of the dustwrapper.

In spite of the book’s relatively recent date, now in print only in paperback at £8.99.  The “foxing” to the dustwrapper, and the 18th-century typeface, is deliberate, to give the book a bogus patina of age . . . .