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Hard cover in the original ivory buckram covered boards, with the original glassine wraps, with title to spine in gilt, frontispiece halftone photo of opposite title page. Copyright 1906 Harper & Brothers. First edition. No. 7 of 120 copies (20 were not for sale). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Cross & Ravenscroft date the printing as of June 1936. Printed in England for R. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. by The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton on paper supplied by Spaulding and Hodge Ltd., and bound by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company, Ltd. xiii [1] [1]-436 [foldout map][2]. Nine black and white illustrations, including frontispiece, are unpaginated. Three maps within text plus one fold-out map by J.F. Horrabin. Appendices on bibliographical materials, letters, the trial for heresy, translation, genealogy, miracles and chronology, plus index. **CONDITION: Near Fine, in Very Good Minus glassine. The book has a faint darkening in the last 3/8 inch at foot of the spine, (where glassine is absent.) Otherwise, the exterior and interior are exceptionally clean. The gilt remains bright, hinges are in order. The glassine, (now protected in mylar,) has a two closed tears to the rear side, with some loss at head and foot, and right lower corner front.** This is the story of Joan of Arc, patron saint of France, who came to prominence as a visionary young woman warrior during the Hundred Years War. She was finally canonised by the Catholic Church in 1920. Sackville-West paints a psychological profile of the young woman.**Part of London's influential early twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, The Bloomsbury Group, AUTHOR Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) is today perhaps best remembered for her skills of garden design which she perfected at her home Sissinghurst in Kent with her husband Harold Nicholson, now a major attraction of the National Trust Gardens. This was the second work of history published by Sackville-West, with twelve earlier publications spanning the genres of novels, poetry, criticism and travel. She has been described as something of an autodidact, having been educated at home by governesses until the age of thirteen, followed by a brief enrollment at Miss Woolff's School for Girls in London. **Printer and publisher Richard Cobden-Sanderson (1884-1964) was the son of famed English fine bookbinder T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.**REFS: Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.31(b) Scarce.
Ref: BLOOM 9237
$1250.00