Author: SEEBOHM, FREDERIC
Title: The Oxford Reformers [John Colet, Erasmus and Sir Thomas More] (Everyman's Library #665)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [1914]. Hardcover. Ex-library. Undated but likely first Everyman's Library edition (1914). The English economic historian Frederic Seebohm (1833-1912) focuses on the influences of University of Oxford lecturers John Colet, Erasmus, and Sir Thomas More, ".with relation to the religious movements at Oxford from 1496 to 1519." (per Ross, p.451). With a brief preface by the author's son, Hugh Seebohm. An entry in Everyman's Library Biography series. E.L. no. 665, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full grey cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Evidence of prior University of Chicago Library ownership limited to two rubberstampings to front paste-down and two-digit serial number to spine. A Fair-only copy, with general soiling to cloth & textblock edges, somewhat shaken binding and tears to cloth along back joint, else complete.; Ex-Library; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xi, 331 pages. Fair with no dust jacket .

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