Aucassin and Nicolette

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1931 Designed and illustrated by Vojt?ch Preissig. Translated by Andrew Lang. Limited edition. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Preissig, this being number 1376. Publisher's cloth, patterned in purple, green, and black, spine lettered in gilt, and endpapers decorated in green; in its original cream dust jacket, patterned in green yellow and purple, with spine lettered in black; lacking publisher's slipcase. Book with just a tiny spot of staining to right edge of front board, else fine; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with two tiny nicks to head of spine, and a few small closed tears to top edges of panels. Overall, a superb copy. Aucassin et Nicolette is an anonymously penned 13th-century French chantefable (prose narrative interspersed with poetry) about two lovers who overcome pirates and imprisonment to be together. The story is seen as a parody of Old French genres, like the epic, the romance, and the saint's life. The one surviving manuscript of Aucassin et Nicolette is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.. Signed. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.