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More imagesPublished by Burns and Oates, Granville Mansions, Orchard Street, London W., 1884
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Illustrated with facsimile black-and-white wood-engraving showing: 'Luther's portrait prefixed to the Strassburg edition of his Sermons printed by Schott A. D. 1523.' Good in yellow cloth-covered decorative beveled and decorative blind bordered boards with gilt tit…les to decorative ruled spine. New sympathetic decorative grey and gilt highlighted floral front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Edges of boards rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and worn. Head and tail of spine rubbed and worn. Small splits to outer cloth of head of spine. Tiny splits to outer cloth of tail of spine. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Foxing to bottom edge of text-block. Sporadic light foxing to pages. 226mm x 158mm. Contents and Errata to the fore plus v prelim-pages Ad Lectorem by the author written at Caverswall, Stoke upon Trent plus 392 pages including index to rear. ***Chapters: the Intellectual, Religious and Social state of Germany before Luther; II. Luther before his Apostasy; III. Luther and Tetxel; IV. The Leipzig Disputation; V. From Leipzig to Worms; VI. Luther at Worms; XII. Luther and the Bible; VIII. The "Evangelium"; IX. Luther on the Priesthood and on monasticism; X. The first fruits of private judgment; XI. Charity and Tolerance; XII. Luther on the Mandatum of Nurnberg; XIII. De servo arbitio; XIV. Luther on Matrimony; XV. Luther and the Peasants; XVI. Luther and the Sacramentarians; XVII. Pope Luther; XVIII. The Confessio Augustana; XIX. Schmalkalden; XX. Fruits of the Reformation; XXI. Luther on Bigamy; XXII. Luther's last years; XXIII. Luther's Character; XXIV. Luther's work at the present time. ***'The bulk of the sermons, speeches, lectures and newspaper articles delivered or written in praise of him made it evident that most of the speakers or writers derived their knowledge of him not from his own works, but from old legends or from admiring biographies, or perhaps from the tiny, tidy, revised and expurgated editions of the Tabletalk which were to be had at the railway bookstalls. Some friends suggested to me the idea of drawing a portrait of the Prophet of Wittenberg from his own works the prospect of having to devote many months to going through his voluminous and frequently disgusting books was anything but cheerful, but I resolved to carry out the idea, in hope of contributing a little towards vindicating historical truth.' (Quote from Ad Lectorem by the author). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original cloth-covered boards. An uncommon antiquarian title. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
