The Early Editions Of The Roman De La Rose Primary Source Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from The Early Editions of the Roman De La Rose I hope that this overgrown booklet will be found to justify its existence, if not its size, by providing a full and trustworthy account of its special subject, and further by setting forth in detail a typical fragment of French book-history - the story of one among the numerous non-religious works whose period of popularity coincided with the transition from the Manuscript to the Printed Book. This, and the desire to do just honour to a great but now neglected poem, must be my excuse for making so large a book concerning the twenty-one editions of a single work. I have long been interested in the Roman de la Rose and its bibliography; but the moving impulse towards the undertaking of this task was the desire to solve the puzzle of the first three - or, as Brunet thought, four - editions, and decide their order of priority. After I had got some way in working out this question for myself, I became aware that M. Claudin had settled the matter on other lines, mainly typographical; and had his great work, and especially the Lyons portion of it, appeared some years ago, this monograph would not have been written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.