The Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year
London, Bickers and Son, 1880.
Small octavo, xii, 316 pages plus 12 'illustrations by Fr. Overbeck, reproduced in permanent photography' (these Woodburytypes, of significant religious events, are approximately 60 × 77 mm each).
Gilt-pictorial cloth, all edges gilt; covers slightly marked and rubbed, with minimal wear to the extremities; contemporary prize inscription on the front pastedown (with the recipient's name ruled out); thin acidic card on which the plates are mounted is uniformly discoloured to a pale grey; frontispiece mount and title page slightly affected by an acidic tissue-guard (no longer present); an excellent copy.
Item #74305
Price (AUD):
$150.00