Title: The lay of The Purple Falcon; a metrical romance, now first printed from the original manuscript, in the possession of the Hon. Robert Curzon
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. xiv, [20]. Signatures: [a]4 b4 A-B4 C2. One of 30 copies, signed by William Nicol opposite title page. Presentation inscription to Arthur Freeman from Nicolas Barker, “a house-warming present, February 1976” on front flyleaf.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A ‘medieval’ invention, a poem in archaic style, professing to be a translation of a manuscript at Parham. The earlier part was really written by Bishop Heber, and Curzon completed it (cf. L. Stephen (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography. London, 1888, vol. XIII, p. 355).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103432" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>