First edition. A collection of essays that commemorate the twelve-hundredth anniversary of the death of Bede. This historian and Doctor of the Church was born in 672 or 673 and died in 735 and was known as the most eminent scholar of the West. Indexed. A bookplate from a private book collector's club stamped "withdrawn" is mounted on the front pastedown. xvi, 277+ 1 pages. cloth.. 8vo..
Alexander Hamilton Thompson, CBE FBA FSA (1873 –1952) was a historian. He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds from 1924 to 1939.