Author: Berington, Joseph
Title: The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa; Comprising a Period of Eighty-Four Years, from 1079 to 1163: With Their Genuine Letters, from the Collection of Amboise: With a Plate, Representing the Tomb of Abeillard and Heloisa
Description: Philadelphia, Abraham Small, 1819. Hardcover. Brown leather and marbled paper boards with mounted black title card and gilt lettering on the spine; marbled textblock edges; 408 pp.; mounted frontispiece. This book is the perfect candidate for rebinding or rebacking. It includes the color frontis, which was restored to the book in 1886, as explained by the lengthy message opposite the frontis. Ill.: Hill, J. Fair boards, Good interior (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; front cover is detached; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; lengthy message handwritten on first page; colored frontis was restored by mounting it on following page; interior is clean but lightly toned with occasional smudging or foxing; textblock is solid.) .

Keywords: Biography / Autobiography, Peter Abelard, Heloise ; Abelard, Peter and Heloise ; ; Hill, J.


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