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Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality by A Gentleman With a Duster, Illustrated by Emile Verpilleux
- Bookseller: Ghost River Books
(CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 001735
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: N.Y. And London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1922
- Date published: 1922
- Keywords: CHRISTIANITY, CHURCHY, ENGLAND, BIBLE, CHRIST, CLERGY, CHURCH OF REFORMATIO N, DIVINE WILL EMILE VERPILLEUX RELIGION PSYCHOLOGY ESSAYS THEOLOGY
Book Description
N.Y. And London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1922, 1922 Hard Cover. First American Edition. 9 1/4 x 6 1/8. 229 pp. Anonymous, author also, of Mirrors of Washinton, The Mirrors of Downing Street and The Glass of Fashion. In Painted Windows, the author "A Ge ntleman With a Duster" analyzes the personalities of noted religious leaders and in doing so,".seeks to discover a reason for the present rather ignoble situation of the Church in the affections of m en." In the introduction he states that his purpose "is to examine the mind of modern Christianity." Books consists of a foreword, and an introduction (by Kirsopp Lake), an Introduction to the Ameri can edition and 13 chapters - each devoted to a separate theologian: Bishop Gore, Dean Inge, Father E.W. Barnes, ARchbishop Randall Davidson and others. Beautiful portraits of each subject. Binding is dk blue cloth on boards, gilt lettering. Spine faded and with chip 1/4 x 1/4 ". Front and back spotted and discoloured with soiling. But tight. Endpapers clean. Small distinguished bookplate: Grenvil le, Lindall, Withrop. Text bright, tight, clean. Binding: fair Text: v. good..
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