cuts, FINE COPY, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, from Utterson's library, £70. Imprime à Paris pour Galliot du pre [at end 1522] THE RAREST AND FINEST edition of this celebrated Romance. The Solar copy fetched 2000 francs. The Didot collection could only boast of a small 4to. reprint by Bonfons, undated (about 1570), which fetched 1650 francs at the Didot sale. This romance which introduces fairies among the dramatis persona, and thus takes a special distinction of its own, is of unknown authorship and date, but was probably written about the beginning of the fifteenth century. The writer of the prologue speaks as if he merely corrected the language of an older original, but this was evidently a mere fabrication. It is only the origin of the hero which connects the romance with those of the Round Table. The chief battles it recounts are all between Christians and Saracens, and amongst the prominent characters is a goblin dwarf. 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