UK: Oxford University Press, 1961. (Oxford English Monographs 4) 1961 Reprint VG original green cloth, plain paper end sheets former owner's name in pencil to ffep, pencil annotation ot text and rear end sheet, d/j price clipped and in protective cover. minor foxing to the 79 page edges. Sir Orfeo is a retelling in early fourteenth-century verse of the Classical legend of Orpheus and Eurodice, strongly influenced by Celtic traditions of the Other World. This edition presents the three manuscript versions together in full for the first time. The texts are preceded by a survey of the literary relationships of the story and an examination of the linguistic forms of the poem. With an exhaustive glossary. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good ++. 24mo - over 5" - 8" Tall.