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Cloth-backed boards. 45 offprints bound in one vol, all but nos 1, 15, 38 and 39 retaining original wrappers; manuscript title-page and contents list. Covers slightly marked. With the Crabbet Park bookplate of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; mounted on the pastedown facing a black-edged portrait of the author, "May 30th, 1840-Dec. 13th, 1912". The titles are as follows. 1) Rus in Urbe: concerning birds and their nests, 1894. 2) Rus in Urbe, 2: rats and mice, 1895. 3) Rus in Urbe, 3: a winter exhibition, 1895. 4) Rus in Urbe, 4: "flittermice", 1895. 5) Rus in Urbe, 5: "passer domesticus", 1896. 6) Rus in Urbe: ducks and drakes, 1897. 7) Rus in Urbe: wild life in the park, 1897. 8) Rus in Urbe: a pack of geese, 1897. 9) Rus in Urbe, 9: starlings, 1903. 10) Rus in Urbe, x: rooks, 1904. 11) Rus in Urbe, xi: corvine tragedies, 1904. 12) Rus in Urbe, xii: London pride, 1905. 13) Rus in Urbe, xiii: oak-apples, 1907. 14) Rus in Urbe, xiv: nature the indomitable, 1909. 15) The Eye and its Making, 1890. 16) The Mystery of Life, 1908. 17) "Increase and Multiply", 1910. 18) Seasons and Days and Years, 1910. 19) Giants and Pigmies, 1910. 20) Glow-worms, 1911. 21) The Strange History of Eels, 1911. 22) "The Month," and John Henry Newman, 1903. 23) "The Month," and John Henry Newman II, 1903. 24) "The Month" and John Henry Newman III, 1903. 25) "The Month" and John Henry Newman IV, 1903. 26) The Date of Easter, 1895. 27) Fin de Siècle, 1896. 28) Giordano Bruno, 1908. 29) The Gunpowder Plot, 1895. 30) Titus Oates at School, 1903. 31) The Popish Plot and its Newest Historian [John Pollock], 1903. 32) The Jesuit Myth, 1897. 33) The Wily Jesuit: an historical study, 1897. 34) The Jesuit Bogey and the "Monita Secreta", 1901. 35) "Pascal's invincible blade", 1904. 36) "The End Justifies the Means", 1901. 37) Madagascar: the Jesuit at work, 1897). 38) A Dialogue on Eternal Punishment, 1906. 39) The Papal Encyclical: from a Catholic's point of view, 1908. 40) Doctor Lingard, 1912. 41) The French Associations Law and its Administrators, 1902. 42) The Rupture of Church and State in France, 1906. 43) 'Tis Sixty Years Since, 1897. 44) A Tour to the Hebrides II, 1903. 45) A Glimpse of Ultima Thule [i.e. Shetland] II, 1903. Bound in at the front are Father John Gerard: (in memoriam) and Some Further Notes on our Late Editor, offprints from The Month, 1913, marked by Blunt, "to be kept & bound Feb. 1913"; with, stitched in or loosely inserted, 10 autograph letters signed from Gerard to Blunt, 29pp. 8vo, Stonyhurst and London (31 Farm Street), 1854-1908, and an autograph letter signed from John Hungerford Pollen SJ, 4pp. 8vo, London (31 Farm Street), 23 December 1912, informing Blunt of the circumstances of Gerard's death. John Gerard was born in Edinburgh, and brought up at Chesters, near Jedburgh, and then Rochsoles, near Airdrie, the son of a soldier. His parents were received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1848-9, and young John was sent the following year to Stonyhurst, where he first met Wilfrid Blunt. Two months Gerard's junior, Blunt was born at Petworth House (his mother being received into the Church in 1851) and enjoyed an altogether more exotic career. There is something touching in his having preserved so carefully the printed output of his Jesuit schoolfriend - who spent most of his career at Stonyhurst until, in 1893, he was summoned to London to edit The Month, in which post, with a three-year break when he was promoted English Provincial of his order, 1897-1900, he continued until six months before his death. His first three letters are written as a boy at Stonyhurst, bustling with quotidian news. "Do you intend to go into the cavalry or infantry?" he asks Blunt, 12 April 1856. "I suppose into the cavalry as I think you were mad after horses." They don't seem to have been in touch again for more than 40 years, when Gerard writes to consult Blunt about butterflies. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30M100231
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