KNOX Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald
A Selection from the occasional Sermons of the Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox. Edited by Evelyn Waugh [with Preface]. 550 COPIES WERE PRINTED; THIS COPY WITH SIGNED EPHEMERA AND P.C. WRITTEN BY EVELYN WAUGH
Dropmore Press,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black; maroon buckram, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY. NO. 185). WITH THE FOLLOWING ITEMS LOOSELY INSERTED: A) PAPER SLIP SIGNED BY KNOX MOUNTED ON LIMITATION; b) POSTCARD FROM EVELYN WAUGH'S RESIDENCE AT COMBE FLOREY HOUSE, TAUNTON WITH THE FOLLOWING IN WAUGH'S HAND: 'An Addition to the Knox collection'; C) PRINTED BOOKLET (1977) OF A WEDDING SERMON PREACHED BY KNOX IN TAUNTON AT THE MARRIAGE OF HUBERT HOWARD AND LELIA CAETANI, 1951; D) PRINTED CHRISTMAS CARD SIGNED BY ARCHBISHOP DEREK WORLOCK WITH HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION; E) FACSIMILE OF 2-PAGE LETTER TO KNOX FROM G.K. CHESTERTON; f) TWO RELEVANT CUTTINGS. Collects eleven sermons selected and edited by Waugh with lengthy Preface.
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