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BURTON, RICHARD F., Sir. 1881 A Glance at the "Passion-Play."

A Glance at the "Passion-Play." Frontispiece. Half-title. Small 8vo, early 20th-century tan calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, faint circular stain on front cover, original red cloth backstrip and covers bound in. London, 1881

  • Notes: first edition of Burton''s account of his 1880 visit to Oberammergau in Bavaria to compare "this survival of the Christian ''Mystery'' and the living scenes of El-Islam at Meccah" (page 13). Casada 36; Penzer, page 106.
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