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D. B. Wyndham Lewis; preface by Hilaire Belloc.
François Villon: A Documented Survey.
Published New York: Literary Guild of America, 1928.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops; no dustjacket.
Printer: J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York.
Size: 160×232×40mm.
Page count: xxiv,407pp.
Main languages: English; quotations are mostly given with a following translation.
Overall condition fair: the boards on this copy are a bit grubby with some general wear; the paste-down on the spine is disintegrating; page edges yellowed with age, some foxing internally, especially at either end of the book; previous owners’ names in ink on the front endpaper, and at least 42 pages have some pencilled marking or annotation.

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Weight without packaging: 819g.

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Contents: Portrait of a Master of Arts; The university; The town; The life; The works.
Appendices: Cream of the Testaments (short anthology of French texts with facing translations); 3 English versions; The earlier schools; Villon-Panurge; Double remission; Road to Orleans; Blazon of beauty; ‘Laudemus viros gloriosus’.

Illustrations: 2, monochrome
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp
Index: no

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