Search Results: Art & Illustrated from Star of the Sea Books

Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky, 2005. First edition thus. Octavo, original navy paper boards, ribbon marker, original dust jacket. Gentle creasing to edges of dust jacket, book and dust jacket both about-fine. Modern small press edition of The Little Flowers of St. Francis. A smart reprint of the 1915 edition, translated by H. E. Cardinal Manning and featuring 8 color-printed plates after paintings by F. Cayley-Robinson. Composed during the fourteenth century by several different authors, the Little Flowers consists of: Flowers of St. Francis, Life of Brother Juniper, Life of the Blessed Brother Giles or Egidius, Instructions and Notable Sayings of Brother Giles. With a Preface derived from the writings of Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First edition thus. Octavo, original decorated orange cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Early owner book label at bottom of front pastedown, partial splitting to inner paper hinge, cloth faded at edges, offsetting to rear endpapers, toning to spine and chipping to corners of dust jacket. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. "THE ART-LIFE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH" Later edition of the Finnish professor's classic work on the Theology of Art. First translated into English in 1912, Hirn's book consists of a short Introductory and a text divided into two main parts. The first section concerns the Liturgy and the Church: Catholic Art, The Altar, The Relics, The Reliquary, The Mass, The Holy of Holies, The Host, The Monstrance, The Tabernacle. The second half focuses on Mariology: The Dogma of Mary, The Gospel of Mary, Mary's Conception-Saint Anna. The Childhood of Mary, The Annunciation, The Incarnation, The Visitation, The Virginal Birth. The Holy Manger, The Sorrowing… Read More