St. Augustine’s Confessions: With the Continuation of his Life, Extracted Out of Possidius, and the Father’s Own Unquestioned Works.

AUGUSTINE, Saint.

Item Number: 48010

First Complete edition of this English translation. The first part, consisting of the Confessions, was first published in 1660 under the title The Life of St. Augustine, while the second, relating Augustine’s life after his conversion, is based on the work of his friend and domestic, Possidius, and other of Augustine’s works. Translated by Abraham Woodhead. With a contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, “From the library of the first Duke of Atholl.” With his armorial bookplate on verso of title page.

"The Confessions is the first great autobiography in which personal confession and revelations are linked with the spirit of Christian piety and devotion. It was written soon after Augustine became Bishop of Hippo in 397, and none of his other writings, apart from The City of God, has been more universally read or admired. Its strength of thought and confession of weakness have been a constant support to Christians ever since" (Printing and the Mind of Man).