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Ballades / VillonBy François Villon, Selected and edited by Andre Deutsch & Mervyn SavillLondon: Allan Wingate, 1946. [Late Mediaeval French Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.96. With occasional reproductions of the original fifteenth-century woodcuts. A dual-language edition, showing the original French on one side, and English translations on the other. One of 5000 copies on ordinary paper. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Songs of life and love by the famous French poet, scoundrel, and petty criminal. Translations provided by various authors, including Lewis Wharton; John Heron Lepper; A.C. Swinburne; Richard Aldington; H. de Vere Stacpoole; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others. In very good condition with a prev owner's stamp ("ex libris, Clive A. Barnes," drama critic for the Times) in front, and no jacket.