Search Results: lancelot of the laik by gray margaret muriel

William Blackwood & Sons, Ltd., 1912. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1912. No Edition Remarks. 113 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Quarter bound red leather with green cloth covered boards. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Grubby pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Splits to spine neds. Marks and scratches overall. Textblock is shaky.

Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1912. Firs Edition Thus . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in dark green boards with maroon leather spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing and fading to the spine but the lettering remains clear. Top edge gilt. Label of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue library on front fixed end-paper and a small stamp at the foot of the title page and one other page. Pp.xxxvi,113. Three folding plates. Some pencilled underlining and side-lining.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Near Fine Condition. quarter leather with gilt border line to green cloth covers; printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons & illustrated by three fold-out facsimiles of the original manuscript & a 36-page introduction. The romance known as 'Lancelot of the Laik' survives in only one manuscript, Cambridge University Kk.1.5, and even there it is incomplete (only three Books and a Prologue remain), ending abruptly in the middle of the 3487th line. The ms. dates from very late in the fifteenth century & the writing of the poem has generally been placed not much earlier. Derived from the French prose Lancelot (c. 1215–30) the poem was written in a Scottish dialect, although that appearing in the Cambridge manuscript is far from uniform. Book 2 features an extensive “Advice to Princes” section in which King Arthur is given instruction on good kingship,… Read More