THE HERMITS
Macmillan & Co Publishers. Leather Three Quarters. 335p. Three quarters leather and marble paper hardcover book in good condition. Tissue covered frontispiece. Color illustrated title page. Corners and edges of boards rubbed. Otherwise clean and tight. Item #126759
A classic text written by Rev. Charles Kingsley, author of "Westward Ho!" and other adventure novels. Here Kingsley presents a history of Christian hermits, from St. Paul and St. Antony to the anchorites of the Middle Ages. Chapters cover Hilarion, Arsenius, hermits in Asia and Europe, Basil, Simeon stylites, St. Severinus, Celtic hermits, St. Malo, St. Columba, St. Guthlac, and St. Godric of Finchale. Book is not dated.
Price: $150.00