The cloister and the hearth. Illustrated by Byam Shaw

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Reade, Charles. The cloister and the hearth. Illustrated by Byam Shaw. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. Blue boards highly decorated in gothic lettering, patterns and a portrait of Erasmus to front cover, repeated on spine. Spine sunned, rubbed, with a small portion missing at the top edge. Front hinge starting to fray, otherwise binding square and sound. Decoratd endpapers; front endpaper has a 'Merry Christmas' gift sticker from 1986. Half-title page has small ownership signature from 1913 and a blind embossed stamp of Wells Museum, Somerset. Colour frontispiece protected by tissue; decorated title page. Another colour plate, protected by tissue, at the end of the text. B/w illustrations throughout. 664pp., rough-cut pages, contents clean and bright, contemporary flower pressing between pp. 280 and 281. "I do not know where I can find a book in which the highest qualities of head and of heart go together as they do in this one" (Arthur Conan Doyle). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1637614621290

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