LANGLAND, William; WRIGHT, Thomas (ed.).

£575 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Vision and the Creed of Piers Ploughman. First edition thus of the Victorian antiquarian's rendition of the Middle English alliterative poem. Wright (1810-1877) was an accomplished medievalist who also published editions of The Canterbury Tales (1848) and The Owl and the Nightingale (1842).

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