Davies, Gerald S. Julian's Dream: A Story of A.D. 362. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c 1878. [10812]
Christmas prize bookplate with date of 1878.
Green cloth with elaborate gilt spine, 7 x 4 3/4 inches, all edges gilt, chromolithograph frontispiece & half-title, 247 clean pages with numerous text engravings. Hinge behind title page a bit wobbly. Good. Hardcover.
A story of the Roman Empire in the times of Constantine, Julian, and Jovian. The author posits that the society was not made Christian by the mere decree of Constantine, but that the Christian faith slowly spread throughout the populace.
Rev. Gerald Stanley Davies (1845-1927), a Cambridge-educated Englishman, teacher, and antiquarian; Form Master of the Charterhouse School, Godlaming; in 1909 he became Master of the Charterhouse, London.
