HORAE BEATAE VIRGINIS MARIAE,

(Saint Dominic's Press.)

HORAE BEATAE VIRGINIS MARIAE,

Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum Jussu Editae.

Description: [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

Publication Details: Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, 1923

Notes: 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.'...moreThis 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.' HIDE

Bibliography: (Taylor & Sewell A108)

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Price: £1,475

Subject: Private Press

Published Date: 1923

Stock Number: 73900

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