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Title(s):
The history of Reynard the Fox : his friends and his enemies, his crimes, hairbreadth, escapes, and final triumph : a metrical version of the old English translation / with glossarial notes in verse by F.S. Ellis ; devices by Walter Crane.
Additional Title(s):
Reynard the Fox.
Published/Created:
London : David Nutt, 270, Strand, 1897
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 289, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR4688.E45 R4 1894
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Upon the edition printed by Caxton in 1481 and worthily reproduced at the Kelmscott Press in 1892 the present version is founded."--p. viii.
With an added wood-engraved title page.
Includes decorative and illustrated line block head-pieces and tail-pieces.
Printer's device printed on colophon.
Includes index.
BEIN: Bookplate of Catherine Tinker Patterson.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's printed white cloth. Has bookplate of Jules David Prown.
Subject Terms:
Chiswick Press -- Printer.
Fairy tales.
Nutt, David -- Publisher.
Patterson, Catharine T. (Catharine Tinker) -- Bookplate.
Prown, Jules David -- Provenance.
Reynard the Fox (Legendary character)
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1897.
Contributors:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492.
Crane, Walter, 1845–1915, ill.
Ellis, Frederick Startridge, 1830–1901.
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