Buy this book on-line WADELL,HELEN** - transl by: : BEASTS AND SAINTSLONDON.CONSTABLE,1934.
UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn.Red cloth bds with upper bd with plain uncoloured stamped leaf design to all four corners and a black ink printed
branch-sitting squirrel design by Gibbings.Gilt stamped letters to spine/
backstrip with two small black ink printed
designs (frog+kneeling monk), again by Gibbings,to head+foot of same, which is also slightly sunned/faded and bumped.A minute tear/fray to foot of same.Top edge dust-soiled or coloured? Fore-edges lightly aged and clean, with contents bright, tight, clean and not foxed.8vo, xxpp translator's note + 151pp includes b/w woodcut frntis and title-page, 25+ other b/w woodcuts by Robert Gibbings;3pp sources at rear.The stories of mutual charities between saints and beasts, from the end of the fourth to the end of the twelfth century translated from the original Latin.
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