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tops, silk marker, 5/- net. ***Nos. 2, 20 and 24 are double volumes. Price, Boards or Cloth, 3/- net; Quarter Vellum, 5/- net; special three-quarter Vellum, 7/6 net. 1. THE LOVE OF BOOKS: being the Philobiblon of RICHARD DE BURY. Translated by E.C. THOMAS. Frontispiece, Seal of Richard de Bury (as Bishop of Durham). 3. THE CHRONICLE OF JOCELIN OF BRAKELOND, MONK OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY: a Picture of Monastic and Social Life in the XIIth Century. Newly translated, from the original Latin, with notes, table of dates relating to the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury, and index, by L.C. JANE, M.A., sometime Exhibitioner in Modern History at University College, Oxon., and with an Introduction by the Right Rev. Abbot GASQUET. Frontispiece, Seal of Abbot Samson (A.D. 1200). ***20. THE NUN'S RULE, or Ancren Riwle, in Modern English. Being the injunctions of Bishop Poore intended for the guidance of nuns or anchoresses, as set forth in the famous thirteenth-century MS. referred to above. Editor, the Right Rev. Abbot GASQUET. Frontispiece, Seal of Bishop Poore. _Double volume._ 17. MEDIAEVAL, LORE. From Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Edited with notes, index and glossary by ROBERT STEELE. Preface by the late WILLIAM MORRIS. Frontispiece, an old illumination, representing Astrologers using Astrolabes. [The book is drawn from one of the most widely-read works of mediaeval times. Its popularity is explained by its scope, which comprises explanations of allusions to natural objects met with in Scripture and elsewhere. It was, in fact, an account of the properties of things in general.] 11. THE ROMANCE OF FULK FITZWARINE. Newly translated from the Anglo-French by ALICE KEMP-WELCH, with an introduction by Professor BRANDIN. Frontispiece, Whittington Castle in Shropshire, the seat of the Fitzwarines. 45. THE SONG OF ROLAND. Newly translated from the old French by Mrs. CROSLAND. Introduction by Professor BRANDIN, University of London. Frontispiece. 22. EARLY LIVES OF CHARLEMAGNE. Translated and edited by A.J. GRANT. With frontispiece representing an early bronze figure of Charlemagne from the Musee Carnavalet, Paris. We have here given us two "Lives" of Charlemagne by contemporary authorities--one by Eginhard and the other by the Monk of St. Gall. Very different in style, when brought together in one volume each supplies the deficiencies of the other. 35. WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG. Mediaeval students'
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