First edition. 8vo. xvii, [1], 829, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in blue, dust jacket (neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket slightly edge worn with two short closed tears to head of spine pane, notwithstanding a very good copy indeed). London, Sheed and Ward, 1955.
A monumental survey of the main philosophical and theological tenets and disputations of twelve hundreds of twelve hundred years of Christian thought by Etienne Gilson, a distinguished French Christian philosopher and historian of medieval thought
