The Monks of Athos. Illustrated.

Published by George Allen & Unwin, 1936

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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 further monochrome plates, drawings to the text, folding map at rear, pp. 408, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with a little fading at tips and a small amount of discolouration towards foot of lower joint, extremities slightly rubbed and corners a little pushed, bookplate to front pastedown, ownership inscription to flyleaf, this with panel of offset browning from previous insert,dustjacket a little chipped and nicked at extremities with some internal tape-repair at head of backstrip panel, the latter slightly rippled from contact with water, very good. The author, Richard MacGillivray Dawkins, was here in the latter phase of a distinguished career; he had, in 1920, been appointed the first Bywater and Sotheby chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek at the University of Oxford, and made a Fellow of Exeter College in 1922. The present book, based on the author's research in the field, 'gives a collection of the many legends of the past life of the Holy Mountain current among the monks', using their correlation to 'actual events' to make a 'contribution to the general study of the value of historical tradition' (blurb).…

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Title
The Monks of Athos. Illustrated.
Author
Dawkins (R.M.)
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin
Publication year
1936
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