Life of Christ by Guiseppe Ricciotti - 1991

VERY GOOD condition --- Firm binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Minor scratches/fading to textblock gilded page edges. Very slight fraying of bookmarker tail. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.


This title was included by Easton Press in "The Library of Great Lives" series. Published in 1991, bound in handsome Red leather, and with photo illustrations, the book is a 1st edition thus.

Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards...
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.

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" 'As a blend of comprehensiveness and high scholarship, this work on the Gospels may well be considered among the very best obtainable in English.' — Orate Fratres magazine.

Father Giuseppe Riccioti, chaplain of his regiment, lay in a World War I field hospital, hovering between life and death. If he lived, he promised, he would use his expertise in Biblical languages and history to write a life of Christ. Yet it would be decades before he kept that promise. Only after he had laid the groundwork with a succession of books on related subjects -- and when he saw the thunderheads of another war gathering over humanity -- did the time seem ripe. When 'A Life of Christ' finally appeared in 1941, it was instantly hailed throughout Europe as a "masterpiece," and widely translated. . . . This is not a work of biographical fiction, where the author attributes words, deeds and even thoughts to Our Lord not found in the Gospels. Father Ricciotti's approach is different: "It has been my wish to write an exclusively historical and documentary work." Sticking strictly to what we know or what the Church has generally inferred from Scripture, tradition, non-Biblical sources, archaeology, linguistics and other disciplines, he produces a portrait of Jesus and his times that is nothing less than astonishing in its richness of detail. . . . Every Gospel event brought to life, vividly but above all faithfully."


The above text was taken from Bruce Publishing Company (via Google Books)
[Ricciotti, Giuseppe. The Life of Christ by Giuseppe Ricciotti. USA: Bruce Publishing Company, 1951.]


This handsome book would be a welcome addition to your collectible books library.