1834-1850 The Works of Thomas Arnold

Description

Early Edition, First Edition, Leather Binding, Scarce

Uniformly bound in sumptuous full calf, with gilt detailing to back strips.

Arnold was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement, a headmaster of Rugby School, and a reformer of the public schools of England.

Present here is a nine volume collection of works by and about Arnold, many of which are scarce, and including four first edition volumes, and three second editions.

Present here are:

The 1842 second edition of 'Christian Life, its Course, its Hindrance, and its Helps'.

The scarce 1843 second edition of 'Christian Life, its Hopes, its Fears, and its Close'.

The very scarce first edition of 'Sermons, Chiefly on the Interpretation of Scripture', 1845. 

The scarce second edition of 'Fragment on the Church', 1845.

The two volume 1844 first edition of 'The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold', by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. With a portrait frontispiece to volume I.

A three volume edition of 'Sermons', with volume I present in the 1850 sixth edition, volume II in the 1844 third edition, and volume III in the 1834 first edition thus.

With the armorial bookplate of Rev. Charles Edmund Ruck Keene to each front pastedown.

Inscription of C. R. Keene to one title page head.