Aucassin and Nicolete

Aucassin and Nicolete Limited Edition #63/63. Fine crushed morocco binding by Riviere & Son

Author: Anon., Lang, Andrew (trans)

8v0 (5.25" x 8.875") 1887. Anon., Lang, Andrew (trans). London: David Nutt. Full green crushed morocco binding by Riviere & Son with multicolor leather inlay of flowers and butterflies in an oval cartouche. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title in second compartment, gilt date at foot, all other compartments with gilt double rule frames. Top edge gilt, spine sunned to a pleasing brown, portion of back cover darkened near top edge (see pics). Attestation page states: "Sixty-three copies (of which Fifty-three only for sale) of this edition are printed. The whole being on Japanese paper. No.63."

From Wiki: Aucassin et Nicolette (12th or 13th century) is an anonymous medieval French fictional story. It is the unique example of a chantefable, literally, a "sung story", a combination of prose and verse (similar to a prosimetrum). The work probably dates from the late 12th or early 13th century, and is known from only one surviving manuscript, discovered in 1752 by medievalist Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (BnF, Fonds Français 2168). Stylistically, the chantefable combines elements of many Old French genres, such as the chanson de geste (e.g., The Song of Roland), lyric poems, and courtly novels—literary forms already well-established by the 12th century. Aucassin et Nicolette is the only known chantefable, the term itself having been derived from the story's concluding lines: "No cantefable prent fin" ("Our chantefable is drawing to a close").

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