The Romaunt of the Rose
By: English text by Geoffrey Chaucer ; French text by Guillaume de Lorris ; etchings by Ann Brunskill.
Contributors: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Guillaume, de Lorris, fl. 1230.; Brunskill, Ann.
Publisher: World's End Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Courtly love -- Poetry.; Poetry, Medieval.; Love poetry.
Notes: Contains Fragment A of the Middle English Romaunt of the Rose, sometimes (as here) attributed to Chaucer, with the parallel section (verses 1-1670) of its Old French ancestor, the Roman de la Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris.
The text used by Brunskill in this edition is taken from the parallel-text ed. made by Ronald Sutherland (Oxford : Blackwell, 1967; Berkeley : University of California Press, 1968).
"A limited edition of seventy-five copies. The first twenty-five include seven original etchings and with the text are printed on T S Saunders white mould-made paper. The others with one original etching are printed on De Wint buff hand-made paper"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. 17.