James I of Scotland: The Kingis Quair
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #002565
Oxford Medieval and Tudor Series. xxxviii, 92 p.p. Teal cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and front board. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, bump to spine head. Illustrated dust jacket is price clipped, sunning to spine and edges, wear to spine ends, tear to upper spine with no loss, and a few short tears to head of rear flap. B&W frontis. C.S. Lewis called the Kingis Quair "the first modern book of love." Published in Scotland in the late eighteenth century, the poem slowly established itselfas a work of delicate Chaucerian style, elegance of sentiment, and originality of feeling.
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