The Orchard Books (Catholic Mysticism) Complete First Edition Set: Burns, Oates & Washbourne , Vols 1-17 and Extra Series 1-5, Issued 1923-29 [22 Volumes] by Authors, 22 - 1929

Burns, Oates and Washbourne. Hardcover. B075VDRQHD 1923-1929 first editions, Burns, Oates and Washbourne (London), twenty-two 4x6 inches tall green cloth hardcover volumes (17 primary volumes and 5 'extra series' volumes), emblem-embossed front covers, gilt lettered spines, top page edges gilt, no dust jackets, 6405 pp. total. Volumes in good to very good condition. Mild rubbing and edgewear to all covers, with occasional very slight bumping to tips plus any monastery or other stamps, marks or other defects noted in the listing of volumes which follows (if the list of volumes is cut off on the marketplace where you are viewing this, email us for a full list and links to a full set of high-resolution images of the set). Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. [v.1] The Confessions of Saint Augustine, T. Matthew trans., rev. R. Hudleston (1923), xxx, 410 pp. neat gift inscript. To ffep; [v.2] The Lives of the Brethren of the Order of Preachers, P. Conway trans., rev. Dominican Bede Jarrett (1924), xvi, 294 pp.; [v.3] Love Songs of Sion (English medieval devotional verse), ed. Neville Watts (1924), xxiii, 167 pp. moderate staining and chipping to covers; [v.4] Cloud of Unknowing, with notes by Augustine Baker, modernized by Justin McCann (1924), lii, 406 pp., slight bumping to fore edge of front board; [v.5] De Sales' An Introduction to the Devout Life (1924], xxxv, 309 pp., moderate soiling, rubbing, edgewear and dampstaining to covers; [v.6] The Imitation of Christ, Richard Whytford trans., xxv, 316 pp.; [v.7] New Testament, Rheims 1582 trans., ed. Roger Hudleston (1926), xxxi, 533 pp., religious order stamps to half title page and page edges; [v.8] Lanspergius' An Epistle of Jesus Christ to the Faithful Soul, tr. Philip Howard, ed. Monk of St. Hugh's Charterhouse (1926), xliv, 236 pp., bumping to upper tip front cover; [v.9] Peter of Alcantara's Treatise on Prayer and Meditation, tr. Dominic Devas (1926), xx, 211 pp., religious library bookplate to front pastedown, stamps and signatures to half title and title page; [v.10] Nicholas Love's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesu Christ, ed. Monk of Parkminster (1926), xxvi, 322 pp., slight bumping to lower tip of front cover, religious order bookplate to ffep opposite half title page; [v.11] Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, ed. Roger Hudleston (1927), xlviii, 256 pp., moderate fading, rubbing and edgewear to covers, monastery bookplate to front pastedown; [v.12] Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi, first English transl. revised by Roger Hudleston, intro. By D. Devas (1926), xxiv, 354 pp., slight bumping to tips of front cover; [v.13] Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection, rev. of 1494 first printed ed., intro. By D. Noetinger (1927), lvi, 404 pp., moderate edgewear to covers, ink mark to upper margin of half title page; [v.14] Constantine Barbanson's Secret Paths of Divine Love, abridged English version of A. Touchet, intro. by Justin McCann (1928), xxiii, 244 pp., moderate staining and slight bumping to upper tip of front cover, monastery bookplates to front pastedown; [v.15] 13th century mystical treatise The Mirror of Simple Souls, ed. By Clare Kirchberger (1927), lxvii, 303 pp., slight to moderate fading and edgewear to covers and bumping to tips, and creasing to upper page edges of a dozen or so pages; [v.16] Robert Bellarmine's The Ascent of the Mind to God, 1616 T. Gent English transl., intro. by Jesuit James Brodrick (1928), xxxi, 311 pp., English monastery stamp to ffep; [v.17] Minor Works of Walter Hilton, ed. By Dorothy Jones (1929), lxvii, 232 pp., slight bumping to tips, small gift inscription to front pastedown, slight soiling to rfep; [Extra v.1] Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall's Certain Godly and Devout Prayers, tr. By Thomas Paynell, ed. By Roger Hudleston (1925), xvi, 51 pp., moderate edgewear to covers and sun fading to spine, reasing to a half dozen page tips; [Extra v.2] Sylvester Jenks' Blind Obedience of a Humble Penitent, ed. By Roger Hudleston (1926), xviii, 119 pp., moderate staining and rubbing to covers, prior owner name stamp to ffep; [Extra v.3] Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God, tr. By Donald Attwater (1926), xii, 64 pp., moderate rubbing, edgewear, staining and sun-fading to covers, bumping to tips, Carmelite gift inscription to half title page; [Extra v.4] Eden's Fourfold River (Instruction on Contemplative Life), ed. By a Carthusian monk (1927), xxvii, 98 pp., sun-fading to spine; [Extra v.5] Richard Rolle's The Amending of Life, 1434 trans. By Richard Misyn, ed. and modernized by a Dominican scholar (1927), xix, 55 pp., prior owner name and address label to front pastedown and free-endpaper, abrasions to top margin of half title page. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~RCL~ [11.0P] A renowned series of mystical and devotional Catholic works, greatly prized for nearly a century, first issued by London-based Burns, Oates and Washbourne, a firm founded by James Burns in 1835, which was then at its zenith of influence as an English Catholic publisher and designated as publisher to the Holy See. Among the works included: Augustine's Confessions, Lives of the Dominican Brethren, medieval devotional verse, The Cloud of Unknowing, De Sales' Devout Life, The Imitation of Christ, the Rheims New Testament, Lanspergius' Letter of Jesus, Peter of Alcantara's Treatise on Prayer, Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life, revelations of Julian of Norwich, Little Flowers of St. Francis, multiples works of Walter Hilton, Barbanson's Secret Paths of Divine Love, Bellarmine's Ascent of the Mind to God, Jenks' Blind Obedience of a Humble Penitent, Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God and Richard Rolle's Amending of Life. . Good. 1929. First Edition.