Ronald Knox
Chapman & Hall, 1959.
First edition. Deluxe issue, one of 29 copies, printed on superior paper for presentation by the author. Original publisher's brown buckram with top edge gilt. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper, "For Laurence with deep gratitude from Evelyn Waugh Oct 8th 1959" A fine copy with the faint ghosting of a tape mark at the base of the spine.
Laurence Eyres was a pupil and friend of Ronald Knox, corresponding with his over a period of some 46 years. He was also Waugh's single greatest source for this biography of Knox. Eyres edited a vollume of Knox's collected writings, also published in 1959.
Stock ID: 45670
£6,500.00
