"Aucassin and Nicolette".

"Aucassin and Nicolette".
Michael West (translator from French).
Main R. Bocher (illustrator).
Horace Mansion (composer).
Evelyn Paul (illuminator).
Published by Harrap & Co., London, 1917.
Leather covers imitating medieval binding.
It has slight wear on the binding and dampness.
Measurements: 25 x 19 x 3 cm.

English edition, published in London in 1917, of the famous medieval chantefable "Aucassin et Nicolette". It is a popular anonymous French medieval chantefable, a combination of prose and verse. The chantefable combines elements of the cantares de gesta, lyric poems and courtly love. Its first known version has been found in a manuscript of the end of the 13th century, believed to have been composed at the beginning of the same century. It is generally taken for a book of chivalry.