John Knox: Portrait of a Calvinist

by Edwin Muir

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamp on ffep and lower edge of text with blind stamp on title page. Browning and wear on all edges of text. Cover slightly worn on corners with tear on upper end of spine. Else good.

316 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1929

About the author

Edwin Muir, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator noted, together with his wife Willa Anderson, for making Franz Kafka available in English.

Between 1921 and 1923, Muir lived in Prague, Dresden, Italy, Salzburg and Vienna; he returned to the UK in 1924. Between 1925 and 1956, Muir published seven volumes of poetry which were collected after his death and published in 1991 as The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir. From 1927 to 1932 he published three novels, and in 1935 he came to St Andrews, where he produced his controversial Scott and Scotland (1936).