Price: £80
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1929
Stock Number: 58805
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Injunctions of Archbishop Kilwardby... - (Merton College.) GARROD (H.W., Editor)
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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