The Testament of Cresseid & Seven fables
2009, First Edition, First Printing. London : Faber and Faber. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Item #477140
Physical description; xix, 183 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Translated by Seamus Heaney. Parallel Scots text and English translation. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; The testament of Cresseid – Seven fables: The prologue ; The cock and the jasper ; The two mice ; The lion and the mouse ; The preaching of the swallow ; The fox, the wolf and the carter ; The fox, the wolf and the farmer ; The toad and the mouse. Subjects; Henryson, Robert (c. 1430-c. 1506) – Translations into English. Dialect poetry, Scottish – 15th century – Translations into English. Fables, Scottish – 15th century – Translations into English. Cressida (Fictitious character) – Poetry. Troy (Extinct city) – Poetry.
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