A Glance at the "Passion-Play." London: W.H. Harrison, 1881. 8vo (176 x 115 mm). Early 20th-century calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, black morocco title labels, decorated end-papers, original cloth covers bound-in. Light wear to joints. FIRST EDITION of Burton's notes on the Passionspiel. From the introduction: "My object was artistic and critical, with an Orientalistic and anthropological side; the wish to compare, haply to trace, some affinity between this survival of the Christian 'Mystery' and the living scenes of El-Islam at Meccah." Penzer, p 106.
A Glance at the "Passion-Play." London: W.H. Harrison, 1881. 8vo (176 x 115 mm). Early 20th-century calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, black morocco title labels, decorated end-papers, original cloth covers bound-in. Light wear to joints. FIRST EDITION of Burton's notes on the Passionspiel. From the introduction: "My object was artistic and critical, with an Orientalistic and anthropological side; the wish to compare, haply to trace, some affinity between this survival of the Christian 'Mystery' and the living scenes of El-Islam at Meccah." Penzer, p 106.
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