The English Sermon - Volume One - 1550-1650
by Seymour-Smith, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0856350931
- ISBN 13
- 9780856350931
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cheadle Hulme: Carcanet Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 0856350931 . Some pencil marginalia and underlining. Dust-jacket faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xiii, [1], 491 pages. Green boads with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. An anthology of sermons by various authors, each introduced by Martin Seymour-Smith. "The century of the foundation of the Church of England was also the century of Cranmer, Latimer, Andrewes, Adams, Hooker and Donne. All these contributed to one of the richest and most neglected areas of English literature: The sermon. In this volume Martin Seymour-Smith's selection ranges from Latimer's astonishing Sermon on the Plough to Donne's and Andrewes's learned and exquisitely written pieces." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19416
- Title
- The English Sermon - Volume One - 1550-1650
- Author
- Seymour-Smith, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0856350931
- ISBN 13
- 9780856350931
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press
- Place of Publication
- Cheadle Hulme
- Date Published
- (1976)
- Keywords
- 0856350931
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