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Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum; Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, Etc.

Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum; Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, Etc.

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Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum; Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, Etc.

by Hone, William

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London: William Hone, 1823. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Leather spine over red and blue marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Title on spine in gilt. x, [2], 13-299 p.p. [4] wood and copper engravings [1 folding], plus frontis. Boards rubbed. Light wear to edges and spine. Spine yellowed. Endpapers browned. Tear to edge of p. 15, but not affecting text. Previous repair to tear to top of p. 59 with tape. Pages lightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy.

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Title
Ancient Mysteries Described, Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum; Including Notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, Etc.
Author
Hone, William
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
William Hone
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1823
Keywords
Religious Plays, Morality Plays, Drama, Theatre, Stage, Performance
Bookseller catalogs
Religion; History; Theatre Studies;

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Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Foxed
Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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....
Marbled boards
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Gilt
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