Scale Perfection, First Edition (6 results)

paperback. Condition: New. 1st.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing. Volume 2 ONLY. Crisp and unmarked in full cloth binding. clix, 515pp. Dust jacket shows some slight wear, offered now in a new mylar cover. -- The Scale of Perfection is the major work of the late fourteenth-century contemplative writer, Walter Hilton, an Augustinian canon, presumed to have studied canon law at Cambridge before renouncing a promising legal career in order to become a recluse. He gave up the solitary religious life to enter the priory of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, where he died, some ten years later, in 1396. This long-awaited edition of the second book of the Scale has been brought to completion by Michael Sargent after the death of Stanley Hussey, who had worked on this edition for many years. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 216p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Owner's name and address on front free endpaper; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn, but otherwise intact. A study of Walter Hilton's SCALE OF PERFECTION and its place in medieval mystical literature.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. cliv + 515, illus with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st US Edition. 216 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previuos owner's signature on the ffep. Soiled on the head edges. Bound in blue cloth with white titles on the spine. White, blue, and red dustjacket in very good condition. Worn around the edges. Scuffed and spotted on the spine. 1ST US EDITION. VG/VG. Book.

Condition: New. The Scale of Perfection is the major work of Walter Hilton, one of the best known English mystical writers of the late fourteenth century. The text circulated widely in England before becoming a spiritual classic. This is the first authoritative edition of Book II, based on detailed study of all surviving manuscripts and early printed books. Editor(s): Hussey, Stanley; Sargent, Michael. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 550 pages, 2 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. . . 2018. Critical. Hardcover. . . . .