Sebastian evans ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1899. No Edition Remarks. 100 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt to front. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half black calf leather binding with blue buckram boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt ornaments. Outer and lower page edges untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Slight fading and light rubbing to spine. Browning to page edges. Foxing to first and last few pages. A few light spots and small marks to text. Previous owner's name to half title page. Bookplate of Leicestershire historian George Francis Farnham to front pastedown endpaper. Bookplate of Peter Gilbert Greenall, 4th Baron Daresbury, to front free endpaper. . Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 6 x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxxii, 303, [1].…

Vellum. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. The first English edition of "The Mirror of Perfection," signed and dated at Assisi by its editor Paul Sabatier, in a striking contemporary hand-painted vellum binding. In a contemporary hand-painted vellum binding, with a stylised foliate design in turquoise, black, and gilt to the front board, with vellum ties. The first English edition, translated by Sebastian Evans from the Latin text edited and first published by Paul Sabatier in the same year. With the editor's, Paul Sabatier"s, autograph to the front free endpaper, dated "Assisi, 18 mai 1903". Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece. Collated, complete. An important early account of the life, character and spiritual ideals of Saint Francis of Assisi. The work gathers anecdotes and teachings concerning Francis"s devotional practises, together with his conduct towards the friars and his understanding of the Franciscan Rule. Paul Sabatier (1858-1928) was a French Protestant theologian and historian whose pioneering studies of Saint Francis helped inaugurate modern Franciscan scholarship. An exceptional copy of this formative Franciscan text. In a full vellum binding with vellum tide, with hand-painted design to the front board. Externally, smart. Slight discolouration to vellum, more pronounced to perimeters, with light soiling and the odd minor handling mark. Faint tide marking to rear board. Very small closed tear to upper edge of front board. Minor warping and cockling to vellum. Slight rubbing to boards. Ties functioning, though worn, with soiling. Light scattered spotting to endpapers. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Inscription of Paul Sabatier to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd light spot to fore edge of first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). signed by author. book. …