Michael downey foreword (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 248 pages. 6.00x0.63x9.00 inches. In Stock.

First English Language Edition. First Printing. Quarto (30.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 407pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations with drawings throughout. Inscribed on title page: "To Winkie(?) & Matthew with gratitude and very best wishes. / The Community of Holy Cross Abbey and Terryl N. Kinder / Greenwood, Nov 1st, 2003". All photographic plates clean and complete. Light sunning to board edges, with light shelf-soil to covers, tiny nick to lower edge of textblock (small marginal effect to final pages of text and rear endpaper), and trace foxing to interior; Very Good. Dustwrapper has shelf-soil and light rubbing, creases to front flap, and light foxing to verso; Good. First published in French under the title L'Europe cistercienne. Discussion includes history (Monaticism; expansion/reform), organization of life in a Cistercian Abbey (clothing; sign language; Monastic personnel), and the East range (the chapter room; dormitory and latrines). [84755]. Signed.…