The Manual of Piety: A Collection of Catholic Prayers and Devotions, with the Epistles and Gospels
New York, Cincinnati, and St. Louis: Benziger Brothers, 1872. Contemporary full brown leather, blind-ruled boards, gilt-lettered spine, and metal-mounted board edges with clasp fittings. Leather heavily rubbed and abraded. Front joint split, with exposed underlying material. Spine extremities and corners worn. Clasp connecting piece lacking. Pages age-toned, with scattered foxing and handling wear. Colored devotional illustration facing title page. Elaborate manuscript First Communion inscription to front pastedown, dated May 13, 1882, Columbus, Ohio. Accompanied by a period photographic portrait and two printed name cards bearing the names Mrs. Willard Bernard Morris and Mr. Frank J. Falkenbach.
An early American Catholic devotional with documented nineteenth-century Columbus, Ohio, provenance. The front pastedown records Frank Falkenbach's First Holy Communion on May 13, 1882, in an elaborate contemporary calligraphic inscription. Accompanied by a period photographic portrait and two personal name cards, including one bearing Falkenbach's name. The metal-mounted leather binding and personal devotional association offer particular interest to collectors of Catholic Americana, Ohio religious history, and nineteenth-century devotional literature. Fair/Good. Item #1208
Price: $125.00