Lydgate's Siege of Thebes.
By: Edited from all the known manuscripts and the two oldest editions, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by Axel Erdmann ...
Contributors: Erdmann, Axel, 1843-1926, ed.; Ekwall, Eilert, 1877-1964.
Series: Early English Text Society. Extra series,; nos. 108, 125
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul Trench, Trübner & Co., ltd., and by H. Frowde; H. Frowde
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng; enm
Subjects: Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) -- Romances.; Thebes (Greece) -- Romances.
Genres: Romances.
Other titles: Roman de Thèbes.; Roman de Edipus.; Siege of Thebes.
Notes: Bibliography: v. 2, p. xiii.
Vol. 1 was issued also for the Chaucer Society. 2d ser., no. 46, 1911.
Vol. 2 was completed after the death of Axel Erdmann by Eilert Ekwall.
Imprint varies: v. 2, London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
Based on a prose version of the French Roman de Thèbes, closely related to the "Roman de Edipus," printed in the 16th century at Paris.
"Axel Erdmann a memoir": v. 2, p. ix-xii.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The text.; title: pt. 2. Introduction, notes, rhyme-lists, and a glossary, with an appendix, by Axel Erdmann and Eilert Ekwall.