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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fair. 1915. First Published. 116 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Stickers to spine. Marking to rear board.…

Hardcover. [3], 78 p.; 17.5 cm. `Puritanism is the greatest friend to art. Without truth and purity no art can last. We reject with indignant scorn the dismal cant that talks of art for art's sake, and seeks therein excuse for all that is earthly, sensual, devilish. We want art for Christ's sake.' (p. 64 f.) -- `The Puritans in 1648 passed a savage ordinance against theatres and actors, directing that actors should be flogged if they did not give up acting, and so forth. I am not aware that this law was ever carried out. It was probably only a threat. But what a piece of monumental folly such coercion was. It made no distinction between Shakespeare's dramas, or Milton's Comus and the lowest indecency of a second-hand playwright. We want to get Christ so fully into the hearts of the masses of our countrymen, that they will find no pleasure in anything dramatic which is not pure and elevating, so that a theatre that does not bring forward high-toned drama actually will not pay.' (p. 67 f.) VG orig. green cloth. Presentation stamp on title-page. …

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Good. 21pp.

London 1897, 234 pp., not ill., library stamps (code B-7).