APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA: BEING A REPLY TO A PAMPHLET ENTITLED "WHAT, THEN, DOES DR. NEWMAN MEAN?"

Book Description

London: Longmans, Green, [et al.], 1864.. Eight parts, as issued, bound up in modern half calf, original wrappers preserved (except for rear wrapper of part III). A few wrappers soiled or spotted (one notably so), one corner chipped, some scattered pencil marginalia, neat monogram stamp. An acceptable set, in scarce format. First edition, as issued, in eight parts, and quite scarce in this format. Newman's spirited rebuttal to Charles Kingsley's attack, and the account of his own rejection of Anglicanism and conversion to Catholicism, one of the prose classics of the Victorian age. While rather common in book form, this work is scarce in parts, even in this state. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 98. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 312.

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