1844-1845 Lives of the English Saints

Description

Early Edition, First Edition, Original Binding

All fourteen volumes of this work, bound in five half vellum volumes.

All but two of the volumes here are present in the first edition.

Illustrated with ten frontispieces.

Present here are:

St. Gilbert (1844), the first edition, by William Lockhart.

St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (1844), the first edition, by Father Faber.

St. German, Bishop of Auxerre (1844), the first edition, by Rev. John Canon Walker.

Hermit Saints (1844), the first edition.

St. Wulstan, Bishop of Worcester (1844) the first edition, by Richard Dean Church.

St. Stephen, Abbot, (1845), the third edition.

Family of St. Richard, the Saxon (1844), the second edition.

St. Augustine of Canterbury (1844), the first edition, by Canon Oakley.

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (1845), the first edition.

St. Aelred (1845), the first edition.

St. Ninian (1845), the first edition, by John Barrow.

St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury (1845), the first edition.

St. Waltheof and St. Robert (1845), the first edition.

St. Richard, Bishop of Chichester (1845), the first edition.

Inscriptions identifying authorship to majority of title pages.