THE MUTABLE GLASS. Mirror-imagery in Titles and Texts of the Middle Ages and English Renaissance.

First English edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark green cloth with gilt titles on a bright green label to the spine, in the Margaret Downing illustrated dustwrapper. With 56 black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and extremities. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block is a little toned. Complete with the lightly rubbed and toned dustwrapper, which is a touch faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears.

Translated from the German by Gordon Collier. A comprehensive survey of mirror-imagery to be found in medieval book-titles and English literature from the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century.