REYNARD THE FOX, A Study in the Fox in Medieval English Art by Varty Kenneth - 1967

Leicester UP, 1967T. hardcover. Good. 1.1811 in x 11.1024 in x 8.6614 in. Ex-library hardcover. No dust jacket. Library stickers, labels and stamps on cover and inside. Cover is in good condition. Spine is tight. Pages are clean, free of markings, notes or stains. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Leicester University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. No edition remarks. 169 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over white cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Tipped in frontispiece is notably creased. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and notable board edges. Notable foxing. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

1967: Leicester University Press Well illustrated, quarto, pp 169,very clean internally, cream cloth slightly shelf-rubbed on the lower edge otherwise very good, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it has a closed tear near the fore-edge and is just a little rubbed and worn.. First Edition. Cloth.

Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good- (soiling to boards along top edge, overall shelfwear to boards. Dust jacket has heavy wear and tears.). White boards with gilt illustration on front cover, gilt spine lettering; white dust jacket, color illustration on front, bw illustration on rear, black lettering; top edge red tinted; color mounted frontispiece; 169 pp, 170 bw illustrations throughout. "many of the foxes are shown in the 170 photographs in this book. The text, in relating the illustrations to the literary evidence, recounts many of the medieval fables which tell the story of Reynard with a delightful and appealing rustic humour- simple, direct and often bawdy. Reynard's encounters with Chantecler the Cock, Tibert the Cat, Bruin the Bear and Isengrin the Wolf are all described, and so are his disguies as mistrel, monk, pilgrim and priest. For would-be huntsmen Dr. Varty provides good advice from medieval hunting manuals, and he also includes a selection of… Read More

Leicester:: Leicester University Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. First edition. Very good in a very good (light age toning) dust jacket. .

Leicester: Leicester University Press. white boards gilt, with tipped frontis, bw plates frontis creased, slight spotting . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1967.

Leicester: Leicester U. P., 1967. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 169pp., b/w plates, notes, bibliog., indexes, OwnersÕ bookplate on front paste-down o/w a nice copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket