The Babees' Book - Manners For The Young

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In full: "The Babees' Book: Manners for the Young: Done into Modern English from Dr. Furnivall's Texts by Edith Rickert" Volume IV in the publisher's Medieval Library series. Green cloth with gilt design to front and titles to front and spine. Top edge green, right and bottom edges roughly cut. Printed paper dust jacket. Six monochrome illustrations with guards, all present and all in excellent condition. There is some foxing to the right edge of the textblock, which encroaches onto the margins of some of the pages (and sometimes further), as well as some mild offsetting to endpapers. Otherwise a smart, clean book, tight and square. There is a bookseller's label discreetly on the rear pastedown. The jacket is a little rubbed and bumped, and there is a chip (approx. 15 mm deep) from the bottom of the spine. Furthermore, the spine and edges have discoloured slightly. The jacket is now in a removable protective cover. xxxv, 203 pages. Size 16.9 x 13 x 2.7 cm. If you would like to brow

30 GBP