Why Jesus Wept

(first impression)

 

This book, originally published in 1904, was reprinted four additional times. The original and fifth impressions contain these additional items:

          

- Advertisement for the book

- Letter from the author's mother

- Dedicatio Maxima (To his unborn child).

     

The  second, third and fourth impressions omit these items.

     

All copies should contain, at the back of the book, a laid-in copy of the 8-page pamphlet Mr. Crowley and the Creeds and The Creed of Mr. Chesterton with a postscript entitled A Child of Ephraim Chesterton’s Colossal Collapse.

     

All copies should also have a laid in “Note to pages 75 and 76” / “Further Note” inserted after page 76.

 

Published Date:

1904.

Publisher:

Privately printed by the author.

Printer:

Philippe Renouard, 19 rue des Saints-Peres, 19, Paris, France.

Published At:

Paris, France.

Pages:

xvi + 80 + ii.

Price:

State (c) sold for two guineas.

State (a):

1 copy printed on Roman vellum and bound by Pagnant Rel in red morocco leather.

State (b):

20 copies printed on Japanese vellum and bound in white Japanese vellum turned-in wrappers.

State (c):

100 copies printed on hand-made paper and bound in white Japanese vellum turned-in wrappers.

 

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- Why Jesus Wept

 

 

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