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John Gower; trans. Terence Tiller.
Confessio Amantis ('The Lover's Shrift').

Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
Series: Penguin Classics.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: C. Nicholls & Co.
Size: 109x181x15mm.
Page count: 287pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks a bit battered, some marks and creases on the covers, some wear on the edges with the corners starting to curl and fray; spine a bit creased and wrinkled; pages very yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £4.50
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Various POD edns. available]
Weight without packaging: 164g.

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Contents: presents an introductory version, in the form of a readable modern English translation with some of the longer boring bits reduced to prose summaries.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 6pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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