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Ruth Etchells, ed.
A Selection from the Early English Poets, Caedmon to Thomas More.
Published Tring: Lion Books, 1988.
Series: Poets and Prophets
ISBN 0745913873.
ISBN-13 9780745913872.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; printed textured boards, with paste-down on front board; no dustjacket.
Printed in Italy.
Size: 110×196×10mm.
Page count: 48pp.
Main language: mainly modern English, though with a few modernised Middle English texts.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on its boards, some frays starting on the edges and corners; previous owner’s gift inscription on the half-title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.50
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Weight without packaging: 149g.

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Contents: presents 31 selections, organised under the following main headings: The coming of Christ; The appointed destiny; In praise of God.

Illustrations: several monochrome text decorations
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 4pp
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: the Middle English texts have difficult words glossed at the end
Bibliography: a few references
Index: no

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