Author: AYRES, HARRY MORGAN; BARNOUW, ADRIAAN JACOB; Introduced by.
Title: Mary Of Nimmegen. A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Copy Of The English Version In The Huntington Library.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [iv], 5, (40) facsimile pages; 13 illustrations in the facsimile text, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, blind stamped decoration to boards, dustjacket, very good copy. Cambridge; Harvard University Press; 1932. This prose romance, originally printed about 1518-19, and reproduced here from the only version in English, and the only extant version in prose, of a well-known legend. Mary of Nimmegen is a sort of female Faustus who sells her soul for the freedom to indulge the lust of the flesh. An example of Renaissance moral teaching spiced with examples drawn from the frailty of human nature.
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Title: Mary Of Nimmegen. A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Copy Of The English Version In The Huntington Library.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [iv], 5, (40) facsimile pages; 13 illustrations in the facsimile text, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, blind stamped decoration to boards, dustjacket, very good copy. Cambridge; Harvard University Press; 1932. This prose romance, originally printed about 1518-19, and reproduced here from the only version in English, and the only extant version in prose, of a well-known legend. Mary of Nimmegen is a sort of female Faustus who sells her soul for the freedom to indulge the lust of the flesh. An example of Renaissance moral teaching spiced with examples drawn from the frailty of human nature.
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- Book number: 113210
- Book number: 113210