8vo. 640 pp., xxix, double page map as frontispiece, publisher’s original wrappers, translated from Spanish by David H. Rosenthal, biblio, notes, copy inn very good condition, The Johns Hopkins University Press, London and Baltimore, new edition, 1996.

Synopsis

Tirant lo Blanch is a chivalric romance written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell, finished posthumously by his friend Martí Joan de Galba and published in the city of Valencia in 1490 as an incunabulum edition. The title means “Tirant the White” and is the name of the romance’s main character who saves the Byzantine Empire.