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The Famous History of Valentine & Orson

Plus The Soldiers Wife, and Combat Between the Horse and the Lion.

c 1850 - Glasgow - For the Booksellers

7" by 4", 24 pp

 

DETAILS

A disbound chapbook with engraving on title page.

Valentine and Orson is a romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle.  It is the story of twin brothers, abandoned in the woods in infancy.  Valentine is brought up as a knight at the court of Pippin, while Orson grows up in a bear's den to be a wild man of the woods, until he is overcome and tamed by Valentine, whose servant and comrade he becomes.  The two eventually rescue their mother Bellisant, sister of Pippin and wife of the emperor of Greece, by whom she had been unjustly repudiated, from the power of a giant.

CONDITION

This chapbook is disbound.  The binding is loose and all pages are separate.  The front cover is detached from the rear page.  There are handling marks and brown spots throughout, although these do not hinder the visibility of the text.

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