First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 192pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Minor wear. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Standard postage quoted is for a maximum 1kg book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Books listed on ABEbooks are not kept at our bookshop. Please enquire if you wish to see the book at our premises. Only six manuscript versions of this text are extant; the first printed copies appeared in Paris in 1886, edited by C. Douais, with the title Practica Inquisitionis heretice pravitatis, auctore Bernardo Guidonis. This work comprises the fifth part of that manual. Gui was immortalised by Umberto Eco in the novel The Name of the Rose.

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Title: The Inquisitor?s Guide - A Medieval Manual on Heretics
Publisher: Ravenhall Books/Linden Publishing Ltd., Welwyn Garden City UK
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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