The Nun
Diderot, Denis
| Publication Date | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Folio Society, |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Good+ copy in like slipcase |
| SKU | 25411 |
| Notes | Heavily sunned to spine. Boards very slightly bowed. Occasional foxing, mainly to closed page edges. Lithographs by Charles Mozley are clean and bright. Sound slipcase is slightly worn to extremities and unevenly tanned. Text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. 168pp. an English translation of La Religieuse, a novel attacking the corruption of the Catholic church as Diderot saw it. Colour frontis and sic further colour plates - lithographs by Charles Mozley. Translated and with an introduction By Leonard Tancock. Quarter bound in black cloth with patterned papers to the sides. Lettered in gilt to the spine. Slipcase.
