Search Results: Arthurian legend from Focloir

Middle Ages lrcm Loomis, Roger S. Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance. New York Columbia University Press, 1927, xii, 371p, index. Name of collector on front free endpaper, very good copy of an important book. Tipped in is a note from Loomis, July, 1935, in which he states that his later researches have confirmed the views expressed in this work but has revised some. He cites a number of references that should be referred to clarify and emend those views that have been revised. $35.00 Box A 128

English Literature adgc Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970- Gender and the chivalric community of Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003, viii, 272 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good copy. $10.00 Box 2424

English Literature 021 Bradbrook, M C (Muriel Clara). Sir Thomas Malory. (Writers and their work, no. 95). Longmans, Green & Company, 1967, 36p, bib, port, paperback. Very good, clean tight, no marks. $4.50

Wales rjsa Rhys, John, 1840-1915. Studies in the Arthurian Legend. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891, 411 pages, index, bookplate. The bookplate is from the former Watkinson Library of Connecticut. I believe that Trinity College had control over the collection. The volume is in very nice shape, no marks or foxing. $50.00 Box A 126

Sir John Rhys was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, Celticist and the first professor of Celtic at Oxford University. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography declares him to be "foremost among the scholars of his time" in his published fields, noting that "his pioneering studies provided a firm foundation for future Celtic scholarship and research for many decades".

France wjwr Weiss, Judith, translator. Wace's Roman De Brut: A History of The British. Text and Translation. Revised edition. (Series: Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002, xxix, 385 pages, bib, index. Paperback. Good plus to very good. $21.50 Box 4118
This is an edition and translation of the first extant vernacular "history" of Britain, by the Norman-French cleric Wace.

Wales 003 Loomis, Roger Sherman. Wales and the Arthurian legend. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1956, 231p, index, illus. Bound in blue cloth, some shelf wear, most around tips and top of spine, some offsetting on front free endpaper from review, good, solid, tight copy else.
There are occasional, insignificant pencilled marginalia except on pages 8 and 9 and on the back free endpaper, which have heavy notations. Howard Patch's review (Romance Philology, Vol. XI, No. 2, November 1957, pages 168-170), incorporating some of these notes is laid in. Also is a handwritten two page letter from Loomis to Patch thanking him for the review; commenting on the references to Arthuriana in the press; plans for future works for Loomis and his wife, Laura; concern for critical condition of Patch's son-in-law. Signed, Roger. $85.00 Box 70, shelf 2