The Craft of Dying: The Literary Tradition of the Ars Moriendi in England
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xii, 299 pp. Near fine in original brown cloth and very good, price-clipped, pictorial dust jacket with light chipping and spine toned. Near fine / Very good. Item #7589
ISBN: 0300013361
Yale Studies in English, 175. "Examining five key treatises in the English tradition of devotional literature, Nancy Beaty traces the progressive enrichment of one particular subgenre, the ars moriendi, which reached its artistic culmination in Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Dying'" (via dust jacket).
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