Sir Orfeo
By Anthea Davis
Published by Faber and Faber in 1970
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Pictorial dust cover, pictorial boards
Decorated title page, 7 full page and 7 smaller colour
illustrations (spread over 2 pages).
Synopsis (taken
from front flap)
Sir Orfeo is a retelling of one of the most delightful and approachable
of mediaeval English poems. It is a story of a harper king whose
wife is carried off by supernatural powers, and who wins her
back by the power of his music.
