Publication details: Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press,1923,
Rare Book
Stock number: 73900
This elegant version of the Dominican Rite is given an honourable mention by Stanley Morison in his English Prayer Books (Cambridge UP. 1943) where he describes it as excelling 'the very high quality of Dominican typography already established in Desclee's editions... The Ditchling Horae B.V.M. is a fine quarto printed in red and black and gives the complete chant. The hours are distinguished by wood-engravings [almost all] cut by Eric Gill... the best example I have seen of English liturgical-music printing.'
[ONE OF 220 COPIES], with 12 wood engravings by Eric Gill and two (St. Dominic and St. Catherine) by Desmond Chute, printed in black and red with plainchant notation, the black neumes on red lines, a few faint marginal smudges, endpapers slightly toned, pp. [ii], 75, 4to, publisher's cream unlettered linen, board edges lightly soiled, backstrip faintly toned, untrimmed, very good
Bibliography: (Taylor & Sewell A108)
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