The Desert Fathers : Translations from the Latin with an Introduction by Helen Waddell

London: Constable & Co.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1946). Hardcover. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1946 reprint of a title first published in 1936. ix, [1], 209, [2], [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth board with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 108mm. Texts in English, translated from Latin by Helen Waddell. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Life of St. Paul the First Hermit - by St. Jerome; History of the Monks of Egypt - Translated from the Greek by Rufinus of Aquileia; The Sayings of the Fathers - Translated from the Greek by Pelagius the Deacon and John the Subdeacon; The Sayings of the Fathers - From the Greek by an unknown translator; The Sayings of the Fathers - Translated from the Greek by Paschasius the Deacon for the Abbot of Dumes; Of Accidie : Of Mortification - By Cassian of Marseilles; Fragments from the "Paradisus" of Palladius - From the Greek by an unknown translator; The "Pratum Spirituale" of John Moshus - Translated from the Greek by Ambrose of Camaldoli; The Life of St. Pelagia the Harlot - By James the Deacon, translated from the Greek by Eustochius; The Life of St. Mary the Harlot - By St. Ephraem of Edessa: translator unkown; Notes. .