Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 120
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Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
COWLEY, ARTHUR ERNEST, Sir, editor. The Samaritan Liturgy. 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth with shelf label on spines; decent ex-library set, with stamp and accession number on titles, bookplates, and card pockets, contents otherwise unmarked and clean. Oxford, 1909

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first edition of Cowley's major work. "The texts are mostly edited for the first time, and the few that have been published before, appear now, it is believed, in a more correct form . . . The introduction . . . represents a first attempt at tracing the history of the liturgy" (Preface).