The lives of the saints /
Alban Butler (1711-1773)
Category
Books
Date
1931 - 1942
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3194163
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 v ;. 22 cm. Mixed set: v.1-3, 3rd impression (1942); v.4-7 (1931-1937); v.8-12 (1941 reprint). Various inserts: (v.1) typescript of 'St. Simeon's column' (iv p.); with manuscript amendmants; (v.2) autograph letter signed by Ellen Ettinger to V. Sackville-West; headed and dated "... Oxford 9.2.44"; re: Spanish hand amulet of Saint Teresa of Avila; pagemarker (p.305) torn card printed with 'Dr. Barnardo's homes'; (v.5) article extracted from unknown source (loose-leaf, pp.527-530) 'The ice-men of May' by Edith Grey Wheelwright; with one annotation; page extracted from Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (pp.335-336), 'Gardening saints' by F. Cardew; (v.9) news cutting article 'The monk who flew: an authentic miracle of levitation' by Montague Summers [text marking, with 'monk' changed to 'friar' in title, from Light: a journal of spiritualism, psychical, occult and mystical research, no.3167, vol. 61 (September 25, 1941). Pencil text marking and annotation, with rear endpaper page references in all volumes. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst 1943" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: brown publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Alban Butler (1711-1773) Herbert Thurston (1856-1939) Norah Leeson Donald Attwater (1892-1977)