Evelyn Edmund Campion.

by WAUGH

£3,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Waugh's scarce work on a Catholic martyr WAUGH, Evelyn Edmund Campion. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1935. 8vo. Original red cloth, top edge red, spine lettered in gilt, presented in a green custom made box with two red morocco labels; pp. [16], 3-225, [9]; fading to spine, otherwise very good copy. Signed limited edition, numbered 47 of 50 copies for private distribution. Edmund Campion is Waugh's powerful biography of the Elizabethan poet and scholar who suffered a violent martyr's death at Tyburn following religious convictions that were accused to be acts of treason against the Queen. A Jesuit priest operating worship under secrecy in Protestant England, he was eventually sentenced to death and Waugh relays in sensitive prose the turbulent life of a tragic historical icon. Davis et al., A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh, XII SKU: 2120709

• Binding: Hardcover

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