ABRAHAM AND ISAAC.
Text from the Chester Miracle Plays. Images by J. Martin Pitts. Pp. [42](french-folded and printed in brown & black), illustrated throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial brown papered boards, lettered in black and illustrated in darker brown, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board faintly scuffed and with a light bruise to the top edge near centre; fore and bottom edges uncut; The Old Stile Press, Llandogo, Gwent, Wales, 1999. Edition limited to 220 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. *'The text used for this interpretation of the story of Abraham and Isaac is that of the Chester cycle of miracle plays, which is probably the earliest of the many that were written in the first half of the fourteenth century. As it was thought to help make its doctrines plain to ordinary folk, the mediaeval Church approved of the Biblical stories being turned into everyday dialogue and performed, often under the aegis of the trade guilds, to the populace - in the market places and other fixed sites around such centres as York, Chester, Coventry and Wakefield' [colophon blurb]. Item #137127
Price: $225.00