King Alfred's Books

xxxii, 392pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt and colour design on front, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly sun-faded spine, rubbed and bumped spine ends; lightly rubbed and rounded corners. Text block edges tanned. Endpapers moderately tanned. Front and rear hinges cracked and stretched, volume slightly loose. Internally pages are lightly age-toned otherwise neat and clean. This volume contains six books; The Blooms from the Soliloquies of St Augustine; The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great; The History and Geography of Orosius; Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Race; The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.