A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: The First Three Thousand Years

First edition with these illustrations. Three volumes. Original blue cloth heavily decorated in silver, bronze and gilt after designs by Jamie Clarke, in the blue, thick card slipcase. Each volume with 32 pages of colour illustrations encompassing medieval Gospel manuscripts, artworks from the high Renaissance and modern documentary photography, all drawn from sources including the Vatican, Cairo's Coptic Museum and private collections. A fine copy, the bindings clean square and tight, the contents clean throughout. Housed in the ever so slightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.