Live auction - Lot 926
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Euangelium Secundum Iohannem. The Gospel of Saint John in West Saxon, edited from the manuscripts, with introduction, and notes by James Wilson Bright [...]. With a glossary by Lancelot Minor Harris.
Boston, London, Heath, 1904
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
12mo: xxxix-[1]-260 pp.
Gilt cloth, flat spine with gilt title. Nice copy.
Textbook ed. of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) Gospel of St John, published in "The Belles-Lettres Series. Section I English Literature".
Prov. Julian [Julien] H. Green (1900-1998), American writer who wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française (in succession of François Mauriac). He studied 3 years (1919-1922) at the University of Virginia ("Julian H. Green/ University of Virginia/ November 1920", ownership entry + bookplate).