Author: DEVEREUX Blanche
Title: Star of Mercia. Historical Tales of Wales and the Marches. With an Introduction by Ernest Rhys. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Description: Jonathan Cape,, [1922]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip with paper label, green endpapers, boards lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. This copy is presented to 'The Dean of Bocking', a title of considerable antiquarian interest. Although Bocking is a village in Essex, the title of Dean is bestowed upon the rector of Hadleigh in Suffolk. It was at Hadleigh Deanery that the Oxford Movement was born in 1833 to change forever the modern Church of England. Presentation copies are very scarce.

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