Buy this book on-line SIR GEORGE WARNER : The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye. A Poem on the Use of Sea-Power 1436. Edited with a lengthy introduction by Sir George Warner. (WITH ALS)Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1926
First edition thus. Small square 4to. lvi, 126pp. Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, with blind-stamped borders to the upper and lower boards. With two frontispiece manuscript reproductions and four plates. Cloth at the backstrip lightly toned. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper. Laid-in is a hand-written letter from the editor presenting this copy to Shakespearian- and English literature scholar Sir Israel Gollancz. Libel of English Policy is an anonymous fifteenth-century poem consisting of about 1,100 lines in rhyming couplets exhorting England's strength as a sea-power. This George Warner edition is widely considered the best (although in his introduction Warner does erroneously attribute the poem to Adam Moleyns, a theory subsequently dismantled by G.A.Holmes in 1961).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of SIR GEORGE WARNER : The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye. A Poem on the Use of Sea-Power 1436. Edited with a lengthy introduction by Sir George Warner. (WITH ALS). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, libri rari, out-of-print books, fine bindings and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |