The Fame of Blessed Thomas More.

(Tolkien.) CHAMBERS (R.W., Introduces)

The Fame of Blessed Thomas More.

Being Addresses Delivered in his Honour in Chelsea, July 1929, by Father Ronald Knox, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Lord Justice Russell, Henry Browne, S.J., Reginald Blunt, Bede Jarrett, O.P. With an Introductory Essay by Professor R.W. Chambers.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 132, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, More's arms to front and the backstrip lettering stamped in blue, a little darkened to backstrip and borders, corners of upper board very gently knocked, a couple of faint spots to fore-margin of flyleaf, very good

Publication Details: Sheed and Ward, 1929

Notes: A New Year's gift from R.W. Chambers, who leads this collection of essays, to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, adding beneath the inscription ('J.R.R. Tolkien, from R.W. Chambers, Dec. 31, 1929') a lengthy quotation from More on the giving of gifts at New Year between 'friends [...] as a witness of their love and friendship'. A printed card, conveying the author's 'best wishes' to the same and depicting Holbein's study for his painting of the More Family Group is laid in at the rear.Chambers, a fellow Catholic and 'among the foremost Old English scholars', was, Tom Shippey writes, 'a patron and su...moreA New Year's gift from R.W. Chambers, who leads this collection of essays, to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, adding beneath the inscription ('J.R.R. Tolkien, from R.W. Chambers, Dec. 31, 1929') a lengthy quotation from More on the giving of gifts at New Year between 'friends [...] as a witness of their love and friendship'. A printed card, conveying the author's 'best wishes' to the same and depicting Holbein's study for his painting of the More Family Group is laid in at the rear.Chambers, a fellow Catholic and 'among the foremost Old English scholars', was, Tom Shippey writes, 'a patron and supporter of Tolkien in his early years'. Their correspondence also records the presentation of Chambers' subsequent biography of More in 1935. An excellent association copy. HIDE

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Price: £3,000

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1929

Stock Number: 74986

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