The Cloister and the Hearth (Macmillan Pocket Classics series)

404pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, blind embossed design and titles on front. Bumped spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan, affecting page margins. Compliments slip from Monkton Combe school has been attached with a pin to front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 16mo. Set in the 15th century it tells of the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries with the main theme being the struggle between man's obligations to family and to Church. Abridged; edited with an introduction and notes by Olive Ely Hart. Frontis of Erasmus.