This new (bilingual) edition of the 15th-century poet1s work incorporates recent scholarship.

With a newly revised French text that reflects the latest scholarship, this bilingual edition also features inviting and informative notes that illuminate the nuances of Villon’s poems and the world of medieval Paris.

It is also the first annotated English version based on the best-text principle and respecting both Villon’s meaning and his metrics. A modern edition of the French texts is presented beside the English on facing pages.

The poems of master Francis Villon of Paris was published in London by Reeves & Turner, 1881. SLV copy has 2 signatures on front endpapers - Alfred George Stephens and Norman Lindsay.