Author: Reade, Charles
Title: The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1932. #862, Signed by the Illustrator. Hardcover. Orange slipcase with red lettering; orange protective DJ with red lettering; brown and orange illustrated cloth over boards with gilt lettering; 2 volumes; richly illustrated. This copy is #862, Signed by the Illustrator. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often describes the events, people and their practices in minute detail. Its main theme is the struggle between man's obligations to family and to Church. The author of The Cloister and the Hearth, at the end of ths story, reveals that Margaret's and Gerard's son, also named Gerard, became the great Catholic scholar and Humanist, Erasmus of Rotterdam, a major historical figure. Indeed, little is actually known about Erasmus' actual parentage (apparently illegitimate), though his parents were in reality named Margaret and Roger Gerard. -- WorldCat. Ill.: Ward, Lynd. Poor slipcase with Good volumes (Slipcase is not fully intact and is smudged/scuffed/broken; DJs are chipped and smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn; interiors are clean; bindings are solid.) .

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Lynd Ward, Historical Fiction, Middle Ages, Romance ; Ward, Lynd ; ; Ward, Lynd


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