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[BINDING]. LANG, Andrew (1844–1912), translator. Aucassin & Nicolete. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Skinny 8vo. Engraved frontispiece on japan vellum and 3 woodcut designs by Jacomb Hood. Full contemporary crushed blue morocco with intersecting gilt frames on covers, upper cover gilt–lettered with two leafy sprigs, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt–lettering and fillets in compartments, all edges gilt, gilt turn ins, gilt stamp–signed by Hatchards (spine gently sunned with few minor touch ups). FIRST MOSHER EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper of the “Old World Edition” that reproduces the 1887 edition translated by Lang.