{"product_id":"hypatia-or-new-foes-with-an-old-face-charles-kingsley-1st-edition","title":"Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face, Charles Kingsley — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePublication\u003c\/b\u003e: London, John W. Parker and Son, 1853\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eFormatting\u003c\/b\u003e: 8vo, 2 vols., pp. [xx], 314; [iv], 379, [1], 6 [adverts].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/b\u003e: Good. The original ribbed plum-brown cloth bindings are complete but display wear commensurate with their age, notably sunning to the spines and rubbing along the joints. The spine ends are chipped with minor fraying, and there is initial splitting starting at the hinges. The boards show light bumping to the corners and minor surface scuffing, yet the blind-stamped borders remain reasonably well-defined. Internally, the front pastedown and free endpaper of Volume I bear noticeable skinning and paper residue, likely from the removal of an old bookplate or label. The text blocks are generally sound and the pages remain legible, though the bindings are slightly shaken. A fair, unsophisticated set in its original state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/b\u003e: First Edition. The present copy conforms to the required points for the true first edition (Sadleir 1339), notably retaining the half-title in Volume I (none called for in Volume II) and the requisite six pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear of the second volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eThe set bears the discrete bookseller's ticket of \"George T. Juckes \/ Book Merchant \/ 85 Aston Street \/ BIRMINGHAM\" to the lower left corner of the front pastedown in Volume I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eHypatia\u003c\/i\u003e in its original 1853 John W. Parker cloth is increasingly scarce on the open market. Due to the fragility of nineteenth-century cloth bindings, most surviving first-edition examples have been subsequently rebound in leather or heavily restored, making unrestored copies highly desirable for collectors of Victorian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003eOriginally serialized in \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"32\"\u003eFraser’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e before its two-volume publication, Charles Kingsley's \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"104\"\u003eHypatia\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping historical and philosophical novel set in fifth-century Alexandria. The narrative charts the dramatic life and ultimate martyrdom of the Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician Hypatia. Against a richly drawn backdrop of a crumbling Roman Empire, Kingsley masterfully explores the volatile ideological conflicts between early Christianity, declining paganism, and the imperial ambitions of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55116844826963,"sku":"5758","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260928_154851.jpg?v=1790765428","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/hypatia-or-new-foes-with-an-old-face-charles-kingsley-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}