The Practice Of The Presence Of God Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine

Brother Lawrence or Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Introduction by Mrs. Pearsall Smith)

Published by London: James Nisbet & Company, Ltd., 1897

About this Item

1897. 2nd Edition. Collectors. Very RARE in this edition. Original binding. Green Cloth hardcover with gilt and black stamping. No DJ. Frontispiece. Translated from the French. Small Bio of Brother Lawrence attached to front pastedown. 44pp. From Pearsall's introduction: "This book consists of notes of several conversations had with, and letters written by, Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine, a lowly and unlearned man, who, after having been a footman and soldier, was admitted a Lay brother among the barefooted Carmelites at Paris in 1666, and was afterward known as 'Brother Lawrence'." GOOD for age. Binding sound. Wear to extremities. Pages toning. Marginalia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Practice Of The Presence Of God Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine
• Publisher: London: James Nisbet & Company, Ltd.
• Publication Date: 1897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: GOOD
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  • Biography