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    By Frances M. M. Comper [editor]
    London   Longmans, Green, and Co.
    6.5" by 5" xliii, 173pp.
    A smart copy of this collection of early English writings on death and dying.
    By Frances M. M. Comper [editor]

    1917 The Book of the Craft of Dying and Other Early English Tracts Concerning Death

    London   Longmans, Green, and Co.
    6.5" by 5" xliii, 173pp.
    A smart copy of this collection of early English writings on death and dying.
    £75.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 949T76
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    Description

    Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

    Uncommon work. With a frontispiece. A collection of early English writings on death and the act of dying, containing: The Book of the Craft of Dying translated from the French, a chapter from Orologium Sapientiae, a chapter from Toure of All Toures, and more. Edited by Frances Margaret Mary Comper, a British scholar and writer. With a preface from Reverend George Congreve, an Anglo-Irish author.

    Condition

    In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with minor bumping to the extremities and fading to the spine. Loss of the spine label with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper.

    Very Good

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