9780715811986 - Reverend Prince and His Abode of Love von Mander, Charles (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 160pp hardback, brown boards gilt in wrapper, on the Agapemonites, small ownership label.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> After a short and turbulent career in the Church of England, during which he wa expelled frorn two dioceses, Prince sele a secluded village in the heart of Somer and there constructed a spiritual oasis called the Agapemone - the Abode of L Completed in 1846, this was a massive built house linked to a private church w included among its less churchly conter billiard table. The Abode was shielded f public view by high walls and solid gate Two bloodhounds roamed the grounds, both to keep strangers out and to keep household in. Strange that anyone living in such a spiritual oasis should want to escape! Perhaps, but then Prince's m?nage inclu two more unfrocked clergymen, a numb of rich women who had been cajoled int financing the group, and also some beautiful younger sisters'. Local goss finally became national scandal when it was known that Prince - the Beloved - H taken a virgin publicly, claiming the act t be the Great Manifestation, the mystic union of flesh and spiri.