This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...and c c their return laden with books (destined never to be read), gorgeously bound in purple and gold, 0008800008008000000900000000009 I fJaraifef &ant=ftoc). m or blue and silver. In each book was carefully inserted a book-plate, giving the name of the a l'Eleve decerne le 42 Aout 1858, K& ffCAf t.e Principal, MARIE. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...and c c their return laden with books (destined never to be read), gorgeously bound in purple and gold, 0008800008008000000900000000009 I fJaraifef &ant=ftoc). m or blue and silver. In each book was carefully inserted a book-plate, giving the name of the a l'Eleve decerne le 42 Aout 1858, K& ffCAf t.e Principal, MARIE. mai cac=-aC5aB=ac5c= PRIZE LABEL OF DIEPPE COLLEGE. lycee, or college, the date, name of prize-winner, and nature of the examination. The custom is so universal, and has been so long established, both in lay and clerical seminaries, that no class of book-plates is so common in France as these. EMBERS of the Reformed Church in France had to submit to persecutions j similar to those endured by their coreligionists in other European countries. It is as well to remember that living as we do in a Protestant country, our historians have been strongly biassed in their favour, and that whilst the horrors of St. Bartholomew's Day are always depicted in the most lurid manner, little or nothing is said about the bloodshed and cruelties inflicted by the Calvinists on the Catholics in those parts of the country where they happened to be numerous and powerful. The two factions hated one another for the love of God; it was a cruel period, and, as Baron Rothschild remarks in his "Characteristics from French History," "There was nothing to choose between Protestants and Catholics in their savage hatred of each other. The Protestants butchered the Catholics whenever they had an opportunity, and all that happened at St. Bartholomew was that the Catholics made a good score." And this view naturally presents itself to any unprejudiced reader of the history of the period. After frightful massacres and ...
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Second Edition, limited to 750 copies or the regular edition and 38 copies on tall Japanese vellum. (First Edition published in 1892. ) 12mo. Hard Covers with with blue cloth binding that is starting to wear. 360 pp. Good. Pencil, marker and stamp markings on first few and last pages. Ex-Library. One mounted book plate from Detroit Public Library on front inside cover, in addition to mostly black and white plates. Walter Hamilton is the Chairman of the Council of the Ex-Libris Society and Vice-President of the Société Françaisedes Collectionneurs d'Ex-Libris.
