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by Benson, Robert Hugh
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Benziger Brothers, 1909. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 558 pages. First published in 1904, one of several novels of historical fiction by a Roman Catholic priest ordained the year he produced this work. Green cloth binding with blindstamped decorations on front cover and gilt titles on front cover and spine. Dark stain on front cover, edges of cover faded, spine faded, some edge wear, scrubbing and spotting of back cover, corners and spine ends bumped and a little frayed, gilt still bright on front cover and spine, gift inscription on front free end paper, wrinkles at hinges, chip in leading edge of front free end paper, small marks on half title, interior pages lightly tanned, mostly at edges, back hinge weak showing webbing, binding otherwise tight.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01439
- Title
- By What Authority?
- Author
- Benson, Robert Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Benziger Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- fiction, religion, romance,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Scraps of American History
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About the Seller
Scraps of American History
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
Unique bookstore in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. We specialize in vintage and antiquarian volumes with an emphasis on history, but carry books on many subjects. Currently we are building a catalogue from a large collection. We have been members of Biblio.com since around 2001 under the name Greenberry House. Our descriptions are detailed and careful and we try to note every flaw. ALL of our books are photographed and show you the exact item you will receive. We ship within one business day of receipt of orders and generally do not add shipping charges to the amount on your original invoice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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