THE BETTER LAND
by [FEMALE ILLUMINATOR]; HEMANS, Mrs [Felicia]; illuminated by BAKER, Helen; [preface by WILBERFORCE, Samuel]:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
As Samuel Wilberforce notes in his preface, the work was produced to aid the rebuilding of St James Church, Ramsden in Oxfordshire. Helen Baker was a younger sister to the Rev. Robert Lowbridge Baker then parish priest at Ramsden. We can trace no other publications by Baker, but she was certainly very talented, as Wilberforce asserts: "I believe that all who themselves are gifted with the power of appreciating beauty will thoroughly appreciate the genius which has designed, and the skill which has executed these illustrations".
A scarce title, with only two institutional copies recorded by LibraryHub (Bodleian & Cambridge).
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- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1301
- Title
- THE BETTER LAND
- Author
- [FEMALE ILLUMINATOR]; HEMANS, Mrs [Felicia]; illuminated by BAKER, Helen; [preface by WILBERFORCE, Samuel]:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Day & Son.
- Date Published
- [1867].
- Keywords
- Art & Design|Literature|Illustrated Books|Private Press & Fine Printing|Religion|Books By / About Women|Photography
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Sky Duthie Rare Books
About the Seller
Sky Duthie Rare Books
About Sky Duthie Rare Books
Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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