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The weavers : a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago / by Gilbert Parker ; illustrated by André Castaigne.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1907 Parker
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Gilbert, 1862-1932.
- Subjects (All):
- Society of Friends--Fiction.
- Society of Friends.
- Egypt--Fiction.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1907.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1907.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 531 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, 1907.
- Contents:
- Book I - As the spirit moved
- The gates of the world
- Banished
- The call
- Book II - The wider way
- "Hast thou never killed a man?
- The compact
- For his sould sake and the lands sake
- The letter, the night, and the woman
- The four who knew
- Against the house of mignight
- The jehad and the lions
- Achmet the ropemaker strikes
- Beyond the pale
- Book III - Soolsby's hand upon the curtain
- The debt and the accounting
- The woman of the cross-roads
- Time the idol-breaker
- Shaper than a sword
- Each after his own order
- "There is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed
- Asin glass darkly
- The tents of cushan
- The questioner
- The voice through the door
- I owe you nothing
- The awakening
- Book IV - Nahoum turns the screw
- The recoil
- Lacey moves
- The struggle in the desert
- Forty stripes save one
- The dark indenture
- Nahoum drops the mask
- Book V - The flight of the wounded
- Is ot always so-in life?
- The flying shuttle
- Jasper Kimber speaks
- Faith makes a journey
- Book VI - Hylda seeks nahoum
- In the land of Shinar
- The loom of destiny.
- Notes:
- A fictional account of a banished Quaker.
- Glossary at end.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in olive green cloth, stamped in red and gilt on front cover and spine. Front ill. (Egyptian motif) signed with interlocking initials DD, the symbol of the Decorative Designers.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 92
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