Let Dons Delight: Being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common-Room by Ronald A. Knox (LP134)

Published 1939: First Edition, Third Impression / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 280 very clean and bright pages, previous owners details on the first free page. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A very scarce edition. (LP134)

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Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, author of detective stories, as well as a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.

Knox had attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 upon his conversion to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Directed by his religious superiors, he re-translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936.

He died on 24 August 1957 and his body was brought to Westminster Cathedral. Bishop Craven celebrated the requiem mass, at which Father Martin D'Arcy, a Jesuit, preached the panegyric. Knox was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Mells.

Reviews:
Belloc says of this book that in it Knox fulfilled the promise of his youth, and I have to agree. Brilliant.

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