Published by The Folio Society, London, 1967. The book is in very good condition, with blue covers decorated with white fleur-de-lys and covered with its original titled cellophane jacket. There are 60 pages with black and white illustrations in the text by Lettice Sandford. Translated from the Old- French by F W Bourdillon.
 
Aucassin and Nicolette is an anonymous medieval French fictional story. It is the unique example of a chantefable, literally, a "sung story", a combination of prose and verse. 
 
Aucassin, “endowed with all good qualities,” is the son of the Count of Beaucaire and falls in love with Nicolette, a captive Saracen turned Christian. The lovers are imprisoned but manage to escape and, after many vicissitudes (including flight, capture, and shipwreck), are able to marry.