Barratt Herbert (7 results)

HC. Condition: Gut. originalgetreuer Einband (Faks.). , , 1052s + Sternkarte, guter Zustand [LSC7,3a] Deu 700g.

35th edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., charts, maps, ; 18 cm. Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Encyclopedias; Dictionaries. 3 Kg.

35th edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., charts, maps, ; 18 cm. Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Encyclopedias; Dictionaries. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2005 Ashgate hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Chapter 1: Introduction (Susannah Mary Chewning) PART I: SECULAR LITERATURE AND DRAMA Chapter 2: Religion, Sexuality, and Representation in the York Joseph's Troubles Pageant (Michael W. George) Chapter 3: The Gentrification of Eve: Sexuality, Speech, and Self-regulation in Noble Conduct Literature (Mark Addison Amos) Chapter 4: Queer Copulation and the Pursuit of Divine Conjunction in Two Middle English Alchemical Poems (Cynthea Masson) PART II: ROMANCE AND NARRATIVE Chapter 5: Via erotica / via mystica: A Tour de force in the Merchant's Tale (M.C. Bodden) Chapter 6: "My Lemman Swete": Gender and Passion in Pearl (Catherine S. Cox) PART III: SAINTS AND RELIGIOUS WOMEN Chapter 7: Spectators of Martyrdom: Corporeality and Sexuality in the Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Margarete (Julie E. Fromer) Chapter 8: 'The Woman Who Shares the King's Bed': The Innocent Eroticism of Gertrud the Great of Helfta (Alexandra Barratt) Chapter 9: Virgin, Mother, Whore: The Sexual Spirituality of Margery Kempe (Liz Herbert McAvoy) PART IV: VISIONARIES AND MYSTICS Chapter 10: Corpus Mysticum: Text as Body/Body as Text (David A. Salomon) Chapter 11: Cross-Dressing Souls: Same-Sex Desire and the Mystic Tradition in A Talkyng of the Loue of God (Michelle M. Sauer) Chapter 12: "Mi bodi henge / with thi bodi": The Paradox of Sensuality in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd (Susannah Mary Chewning).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Twenty Fifth.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Frank Dadd (illustrator). A pleasing twenty-fifth edition of Pears' authoritative encyclopaedia. The twenty-fifth edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding. With Pears' Star Chart of the Northern Hemisphere fixed to the front pastedown, with an interactive moving blue disc.Undated, dated from a copy held at the University of Cambridge.With a coloured frontispiece and nineteen sectional frontispieces in black and white by Frank Dadd. With a coloured title page for Pears' Atlas and thirty-one full pages of coloured maps. Collated, complete.This edition of Pears' Cyclopaedia contains an English dictionary, general information, prominent people, classical dictionary, office compendium, atlas of the world, gazetteer of the world, synonyms and antonyms, and further dictionaries for gardening, cookery, health, sports, motoring and more. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with fading to the spine and rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Joints are slightly tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with marginal age toning and the odd spot. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Thirty-Eighth Edition. 1052 pages. Twenty-two complete works of reference in one handy volume. With coloured frontspiece, the flags of the empire and flags of other countries in colour. Both hinges open. Well-worn. Red cloth boards.