The price-clipped jacket is rubbed and chipped at the edges with minor loss to the tail. The head of the spine strip is lightly bumped and the head foxed, else the body of the book is in excellent condition, clean, solid and unmarked. 310 page, indexed and illustrated, with a foreword by Dame Rose Macaulay. First edition. "Born Benjamin Fearnley Carlyle, he was educated at Blundell's School. In 1892, he commenced medical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He did not complete his medical training. Instead, influenced by the Oxford Movement of the period, he embraced a vision of monastic life as he envisioned it having been followed in the Middle Ages, full of ritual and tradition. A charismatic individual, Carlyle succeeded where others had failed in having the vision of such a life within the Church of England approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury. By 1895 he had established a community of monks under his leadership, taking monastic vows under the monastic name of Aelred, assuming the role of abbot...." (Wikipedia)