Beautiful and rather scarce edition of the sermons of John Chrysostom [347-407] on Paul's Epistles to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. Chrysostom was an important Church father and Archbishop of Constantinople. He is remembered as an early Church reformer and revivalist, a brilliant orator, and person of deep personal piety. 

Chrysostom, John. The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, Translated, with Notes and Indices. Oxford. John Henry Parker. 1843. 558pp. 

Original very handsome velum with contrasting leather and gold tooling on spine, hand-marbled boards, endpapers, and foredges. Textually very good, solid and crisp with some very minor foxing to prelims and rears. Ink inscription on blank ffep.