Bede: His Life, Times and Writings - Hamilton Thompson - Oxford 1969 HC DJ For Sale

Bede: His Life, Times, and Writings - Essays in Commemoration of the Twelfth Centenary of His Death, edited by A. Hamilton Thompson, with an introduction by the Lord Bishop of Durham. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press - first published 1935, this the 1969 lithographic reprint in the Oxford Reprints series (out of print since 1938, per the jacket flap). ISBN 9780198223177 (from the SBN 19 822317 x on the jacket; not printed in the book). Frontispiece of the Galilee Chapel, Durham. The classic collaborative volume on the Venerable Bede: Wilhelm Levison on Bede as historian, Claude Jenkins on the Historia Ecclesiastica, M. L. W. Laistner on the library of the Venerable Bede, and essays on Bede\'s life, his theology, his scientific writings, and his monastic world at Jarrow and Wearmouth. Provenance: from the personal library of the historian William Brown Patterson - scholar of the English Reformation and author of King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge) and William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Oxford) - with his bookplate on the front pastedown; one of several books from his library offered here.Condition: GOOD. Hardcover in the publisher\'s navy cloth with gilt spine lettering, in the original orange printed dust jacket under a removable mylar protector. Jacket is NOT price-clipped (1.90 net / 38s. net on the front flap) and is bright, with a small chip at the top of the front flap fold under the mylar. Small bump to the cloth at the head of the spine. Foxing and toning to the page edges and endpapers, with scattered spots to the preliminaries. Binding tight and square; text clean and unmarked throughout with no underlining or highlighting.Ships promptly and boxed via USPS Media Mail. Please see photos - they form part of the description.