[Literature] Pierce The Plowman's Crede. London: Reprinted by T. Bensley. for Lackington Allen and Co. and Robert Triphook, 1814. Tall slim 4to, (unpaginated (44)), recent tan coated buckram and thick blue boards, paper spine label, cover's fine, recent bookplate, Gothic black and red typography based upon original 1553 edition, elaborate engraved head piece with 5 monks (a medieval alliterative poem of 855 lines, lampooning the four orders of friars), engraved tail piece, text extremely clean and bright, heavy hand made wove paper, offsetting and browning to lesser quality front and rear blanks, attributed to Langland by Tyrwhitt, Skeat and Jusserand, .fine copy.

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