York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. Now First Printed from the Unique Manuscript in the Library of Lord Ashburnham.
by Smith, Lucy Toulmin (ed)
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About This Item
Oxford, UK: at the Clarendon Press, 1885 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Thick Octavo. lxxviii (i), 557 (3) pp, color frontis (fold-out of Leaf 235), corrections, Introduction, appendix: I. comparative table of English cycles of religious plays; II. list of places and plays in Great Britain; IIII. ntes on dialect and grammar; index to introduction with explanations of names of crafts. The Plays; music, reference to the music with to fold-out (of leafs 238) glossary. With introduction and glossary by Lucy Toulmin Smith. First Edition, 1885. Bumped fore-edge corners of boards with minor edge wear to boards, small tears at gutters endpapers but does not effect binding, and lightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block edge. No markings, tight binding, page surfaces clean. 6" x 8.75." Red cloth with gilt borders on front board, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top text block edge, and decorative endpapers..
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- Title
- York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. Now First Printed from the Unique Manuscript in the Library of Lord Ashburnham.
- Author
- Smith, Lucy Toulmin (ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- at the Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, UK
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- DRAMA ENGLAND RELIGIOUS PLAYS CRAFT-GILDS OF YORK PERFORMED BY MYSTERIES OF YORK
- Bookseller catalogs
- DRAMA;
- Size
- Thick Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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