The Lay of Havelok the Dane

Second edition.  xl, 168, [2]pp.  Brown cloth-covered boards overprinted with black decorations and lettering front and spine.  16mo.  Cloth is a little worn and tired, gently rounded at corners and spine ends, slightly sunned over spine.  Upper text block edge browned.   Previous owner's name neatly inked on the front paste down; endpapers a little spotted with some minor light pencil annotations, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Havelock the Dane (also known and the Lay of Havelok) is a 13th century Middle English Romance of medieval literature.  It is thought to have been written sometime between 1285 and 1310 and is the second oldest surviving romance written in English.  This edition was re-edited by the Rev Walter Skeat in the late 19th century from a manuscript (MS Laud  Misc 108) held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford.