Hardcover in blue dust jacket. Large 8vo, blue cloth with gilt spine, 548

Hardcover in blue dust jacket. Large 8vo, blue cloth with gilt spine, 548 pages. Series: The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Condition: Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. Jacket shows overall rubbing and scratching to front panel, edgewear with several short closed tears, small losses at spine ends, and a larger chip and tear at top edge of rear panel near the spine; corners frayed. Old Powell's Books Chicago barcode sticker on rear panel. Boards clean and square; binding is tight. Text clean and unmarked. Ex libris bookplate of Richard Schmidt on front pastedown and an old pencil note. Publisher remainder stripe to bottom edge of text block. Light age toning to edges. ---. Critical scholarly edition prepared by the St. Thomas More Project at Yale. Presents three late devotional works often grouped with the Tower writings: the English Treatise on the Passion, the short Eucharistic Treatise on the Blessed Body, and a suite of Instructions and Prayers. Copy text is based on the 1557 folio, with a full textual apparatus, extensive editorial introduction, commentary, and glossary. A key volume in the standard Complete Works set for study of More's spirituality, martyrdom, and Renaissance Catholic thought.

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