LANG, Andrew.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Aucassin & Nicolete. First Lang edition, one of 550 copies (of which 500 for sale) on Japanese vellum, this copy finely bound. Lang's version of the French medieval romantic chantefable is often considered his best work; Ezra Pound remarked that "Lang was born in order that he might translate it perfectly" (p. 84).

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