The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) By His Son-In-law C. E. Byles, with Two Sketches By the Eark of Carlisle , Lithographs By J. Ley Pethybridge, and Reproductions from Portraits, Photographs Etc
by Byles, C. E
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Decorative Cloth. Good+. Frontis has a colour full length portrait of Rev. Hawker. In special Binding designed from Old oak in Morwenstow and Wellcombe Churches. Ornate Brown cloth cover with blind embossed grape & vine decoration, with central floral design to front & spine. Bright gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges Gilt. XXIII (23) preliminary pages. Main Text 689 Pages + Publisher's adverts. 7 3/4" Tall, 940g. Illustrated with full page Drawings, Photographs etc. Some edge wear, tips of corners worn. Hinges sound and text block firm. Bookseller name embossed in corner of ffep. Previous owner's inscription and note of visit to Morwenstow, dated 1906, on ffep. No other inscriptions. ( Other Hawker volumes in same bindings available.)
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- Cornish Books
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- 019319
- Title
- The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow) By His Son-In-law C. E. Byles, with Two Sketches By the Eark of Carlisle , Lithographs By J. Ley Pethybridge, and Reproductions from Portraits, Photographs Etc
- Author
- Byles, C. E
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane, The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/CLERGYMEN/CHRISTIAN CLERGYMAN/CORNISH INTEREST/RELIGION
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- Gilt
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