[Rarebooks] FS: John Gower's Medieval classic of love poetry. 3 vols. London: 1857

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Gower, John. CONFESSIO AMANTIS OF JOHN GOWER. Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts by Dr. Reinhold Pauli. London: Bell and Daldy. 1857. 8vo. 3 vols. xlv,(3),372;(4),396,(2);(4),407,(1)pp. With the glossary and each volume with the half-title. Title pages printed in red & black, with publisher's woodcut device. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Finely bound in contemporary elaborately gilt decorated full maroon morocco. A.e.g. Minor shelfwear, back cover of Vol. I sunned (partially faded).    $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
Scholarly edition of the Middle English love poetry of John Gower (1325?-1408).

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