Juliana of Norwich

Comfortable Words for Christ's Lovers

London: H.R. Allenson, Limited, 1911. Small 8vo, purple cloth, gilt titles, 133pp. Cloth minimally faded to corners, sunned to spine, mild rubbing to boards, toning and ownership signature to endpapers. Contents clean, binding firm. ‘Being the Visions and Voices Vouchsafed to Lady Julian Recluse at Norwich in 1373’ transcribed and edited by from the recently discovered manuscript by Rev Dundas Harford, MA. An early modern English edition of the medieval devotional classic, printing the first and shorter (25 chapter) version of the ‘Showings’, recorded twenty years earlier than the longer emendation. A handsome copy.

Price: $40.00