The Vision of Piers the Plowman

This fourteenth-century alliterative poem is a sequence of dream visions narrated by Will, who walks the Malvern hills and falls asleep. He sees a field of folk between the Tower of Truth and the dungeon of Wrong, meets Lady Holy Church, and watches the marriage of Lady Meed. Piers the Plowman appears as a laborer who knows the way to Truth and later as a figure bound up with Christ and a reformed society. Passus on the Seven Deadly Sins, Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best turn the search inward. The work is an allegorical satire of estates and salvation, surviving in several texts.

Quarter bound in green leather with buckram covers blocked on front with a pictorial design in brown and gold. Dark green top page edge. Dark green endpapers. Dark green slipcase.