Kingsley, Charles. HYPATIA or, New Foes with an Old Face (World's Famous Books). New York and London: Merrill and Baker, (1897). Reader's Edition. [12267]
Three quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards, rubbed at the spine ends with slight loss, top page edges gilt, tight, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Half-tone frontispiece, title page printed in red & black, xiii, [1], 415 clean pp. with additional plates. Good. Hardcover.
This deluxe or premium edition of HYPATIA was published in 1897.
This historical novel is set in 5th-century Alexandria, Egypt, and dramatizes the violent cultural and religious clash between dying Paganism, rising Christianity, and Judaism.
