Condition: Good Cloth. First Edition 1911 A. Anderson (illustrator). Previously owned by Brigadier-General Sir George Kynaston Cockerill, CB (13 August 1867 Ð 19 April 1957) A very smart translated edition of the classical French tale of Aucassin and Nicolete, with colour illustration. Translated from the French language. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and five coloured plates with tissue guards. Collated complete. The retelling of a medieval French story in a combination of prose and verse. The story follows Aucassin, son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, who loved a Saracen maiden, Nicolete. Translated and edited by Harold Child. Illustrated by Anne Anderson, a prolific Scottish illustrator, painter, and etcher. In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting