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Day, Mabel & Steele, Robert.
Mum and the Sothsegger.
Publisher: Published for The Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1936
Stock Code: 7003
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xlvi, 164, 8 catalogue etc. Frontispiece. Publisher’s russet cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and gilt Early English Text Society crest to upper board. Minor bruising to spine tips and lower corners of boards. Spine shows very slight rippling. From the library of A I Doyle, medieval scholar and Keeper of Rare Books at Durham Cathedral Library with his bookplate to ffep, otherwise a clean, neat copy. Very Good. Early English Text Society Original Series, No. 199. Fifteenth century English poem taking the form of a debate between two parties: Mum and Sothsegger. Contains extensive introduction, appendices and notes. £55.00