Author: Jusserand, J. J.
Title: English Wayfaring Life in Middle Ages - Signed & Numbered Limited Edn. (1889)
Description: T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1889. First Edition, Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. A limited, numbered edition on Japanese paper, one of only 65 copies, this being number 48; bound in vellum & signed by the publisher T. Fisher Unwin on the limitation page; tissue-guarded b/w. frontis. illustration (showing English knights travelling August, 1399); Translated from the original French of Jusserand into English by Lucy Toulmin Smith; Jusserand explores all aspects of life on the road in 14th century England, using literature (Chaucer and other poets, popular ballads, and Piers Plowman), documentary evidence (including a lot of ecclesiastical and secular legal documents, as well as other surviving records), and period illustrations, to create a picture of the roads themselves, the people who travelled them, and how travel affected the country's social and political changes. Limited & Numbered Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 451 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. no Dust Jacket as published.. Previous owner's small book-plate laid in. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Top edge gilt in good condition but worn at outer edge. Gilt titles & vignette to spine with publisher's pictorial logo in gilt to front cover. Includes appendices & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Medieval History; Middle Ages; England; Medieval 10th to 15thc; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: 4129.

Keywords: BZDB227 History/Medieval History/Wayfaring/Travelling/Middle Ages/Sociology/Culture/Pilgrimage History; Medieval History; Middle Ages; England; Medieval 10th to 15thc; Sociology & Culture. Unbranded J. J. Jusserand English Wayfaring Life in Middle Ages


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