Author: john Leland
Title: De Uiris Illustribus / on Famous Men
Description: Toronto, Pims, 2010. Hardcover. Collectible Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket Clean 868 pp. Latin one side English translation facing. NOT a library copy. See our Scans. Brilliant Tudor Historian John Leland's "On Famous Men" A champion of King Arthur's existence and the sovereignty of Britain. Leland scoured and "secured" Britain's libraries and Castles for remnants of this. Here is his huge collection of biographies on Merlin, Taliesin, Arthur, Glastonbury and Welsh Saints and so much else. Here in collectible condition edited by that champion of Glastonbury and much else Arthurian James P. Carley does a service to scholars with this treasure. Handsome volume. Three Geese In Flight Books blowing the Horns of Elfland since 1977. Fine/Fine.

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