Author: AUGUSTINE
Title: The Confessions of St. Augustine
Description: Ipswich, The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Translation by J.G. Pilkington. Introduction by George N. Schuster. Illustrations by Edy Legrand. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering and gilt-lettered front board calf label with natural linen boards, slipcase with paper spine label. xxx, 296pp. Full-page color plates, color pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. This hefty LEC production of the eighth title in their 39th series has rear colophon noting limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #241) signed boldly by illustrator Legrand. The pagan-to-Christian conversion autobiography by the North African born theologian and philosopher (354-430) is a first of its kind and has been widely influential throughout Christendom. Laid in are the "Monthly Letter" and the publisher's printed announcement card. NEWMAN 335. .

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