1957-1970 The Early English Text Society Classics: Sixteen Volumes

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Fifteen insightful books within the Early English Text Society series, published from 1957-1970 by Oxford University Press.

In the publisher’s original cloth, with a frontispiece in nos. 107, 121, 124, 141, 215/220, 218 and 246. Collated complete.

Founded originally as a club by Frederick James Furnivall in 1864, the society compiles a set of literary classics from Old and Middle English manuscripts. This particular set includes fifteen works.

No. 8. Morte Arthur or The Death of Arthur, by Robert Thornton, edited by Edmund Brock (1961 reprint).
No. 82. The English Works of John Gower, edited by G.C. Macaulay (1957 reprint).
No. 84. Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuallyte, edited by Ernst Sieper (1965 reprint).
No. 89. Lydgate’s Reason and Sensuallyte: Volume II, edited by Ernst Sieper (1965 reprint).
No. 107. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, edited by Henry Noble McCracken (1961 reprint).
No. 121. Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Part I, edited by Henry Bergen (1967 reprint).
No. 122. Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Part II, edited by Henry Bergen (1967 reprint).
No. 123. Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Part III, edited by Henry Bergen (1967 reprint).
No. 124. Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Part IV, edited by Henry Bergen (1967 reprint).
No. 141. Erthe Upon Erthe, edited by Hilda M. R. Murray (1964 reprint).
No. 192. The Minor Poems of John Lydgate: Part II, edited by Henry Noble McCracken, re-read by Merriam Sherwood (1961 reprint).
Nos. 215/220. The English Poems of Charles of Orleans, edited by Robert Steele and Mabel Day (1970 reprint with bibliographical supplement).
No. 218. The Cloud of Unknowing, and the Book of Privy Counselling, edited by Phyllis Hodgson (1958 reprint).
No. 246. The Parlaiment of the Three Ages, edited by M.Y. Offord (1959 original).
No. 248. Þe Liflade ant te Passion of Seinte Iuliene, edited by S.R.T.O. d’Ardene (1961 original print).