New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair-; Hardcover; Spine, red with black print; Boards in red cloth with black print, frayed spine caps and corners, wear to hinges and edges, blemishes/shelfwear; Text block has name in ink and name stamp on front flyleaf, name in ink inside front flyleaf, shaken binding with cracked hinges front and rear, spine break with loose pages at p. 20, light age-toning to paper; viii, 499 pages. 1357142. FP New Rockville Stock.

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For Great Keynes, as for most English villages and towns at this time, secular affairs were so deeply and intricately interwoven with ecclesiastical matters that none dared decide on the one question without considering its relation to the other; and ecclesiastical affairs, too, touched them more personally than any other, since every religious change scored a record of itself presently within the church that was as familiar to them as their own cottages.On none had the religious changes fallen with more severity than on the Maxwell family that lived in the Hall, at the upper and southern end of the green. Old Sir Nicholas, though his convictions had survived the tempest of unrest and trouble that had swept over England, and he had remained a convinced and a stubborn Catholic, yet his spiritual system was sore and inflamed within him. To his simple and obstinate soul it was an irritating puzzle as to how any man could pass from the old to a new faith, and he had been known to lay his whip across the back of a servant who had professed a desire to try the new religion.

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Bookseller: Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1357142
Title: BY WHAT AUTHORITY
Author: Benson, Robert Hugh, 1871-1914
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: P.J. Kenedy & Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1925

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.