Injunctions of Archbishop Kilwardby, 1276.

(Merton College.) GARROD (H.W., Editor)

Injunctions of Archbishop Kilwardby, 1276.

Description: FIRST EDITION, printed in the Fell type on handmade paper, single faint spot to title-page, pp. 15, 4to, original grey wrappers printed in black, overhanging edges a little nicked and chipped, very good

Publication Details: Oxford: [Printed by John Johnson at the] University Press, 1929

Notes: With an inscription by Garrod at the head of the front cover: 'J.C.M. from H.W.G.' - the likely recipient being the intelligence officer and academic, J.C. Masterman (Provost of Worcester College following World War Two). At one-time a colleague of Tolkien and an adversary of Housman, Garrod was a classical and literary scholar and an entrenched Mertonian - the ODNB describes him as having 'rarely moved further afield than Blackwell's bookshop; there his figure was well known'. This, his Introductory Note states, is the first printing of this interesting document from the College's history....more

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Price: £80

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1929

Stock Number: 58805

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