bede venerable william hurst (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. First Edition. Octavo, 8.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. xxviii, 556. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving. Contemporary brown, light brown diced russia. Blind and dyed pointillé tooling, and gilt roll, and gilt to all edges of leather boards, as well. Hand-tooled inner dentelles in slanted bar pattern, each with its own pointillé tooling. Elaborate gilt designs to spine, each (non-raised) hub separated by a gilt bar which echoes the stamped border to front and rear boards. Very basic "clouds and speckling" marbling to all edges. Engraved Frontispiece. Front hinge cracking, but holding by cords. Rubbing to extremities with corners just showing. Black on decorative frame is well rubbed. Head and tail of spine worn. Marbled edges and endpapers.Light spotting to preliminary pages. Solid textblock with tight spine. Spine appears to have been repaired; book may have been rebacked. Rubbing and scuffing to extremities and boards, corners showing. Lovely Stormont marbling to endpapers in salmon-pink and midnight blue. Previous owner's ("Charles Walmesley Westwood") armorial bookplate to front pastedown and his name, in manuscript, near top of title page. The introduction (i.e., in this work entitled "Advertisement"), the translator Mr. Hurst cites two previous translations of Bede's History -- the first by Rev. Thos. Stapleton in 1565 which he says contains numerous obsolete and now (1814) "almost unintelligible". The second, by Mr. John Stevens in 1723, he writes is "so literal, as to appear, in many places, both very obscure and defective in the style." All in all, Mr. Hurst claims, ".this interesting and edifying history of the conversion of our own country to Christianity, lies concealed from the knowledge of most people; who, therefore, are ignorant of the true nature of that religion which our ancestors professed." Beda Venerabilis lived from 673 to 736, and wrote this history several years before his death.