Etienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance: A Biography
by Christie, Richard Copley
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. Full cloth binding, rubbed at extremities. Front hinge cracking but holding well. Bookplate on front pastedown. xx, 559pp. Étienne Dolet (1509 - 1546) was a French scholar, translator and printer. Dolet was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime. His early attacks upon the Inquisition, the city council and other authorities in Toulouse, together with his later publications in Lyon treating of theological subjects, roused the French Inquisition to monitor his activities closely. After being imprisoned several times, he was eventually convicted of heresy, strangled and burned with his books.. First Edition. Hardccover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 073216
- Title
- Etienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance: A Biography
- Author
- Christie, Richard Copley
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
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