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The Holy Bible: With the Confraternity Text

Author: Monsignor John P. O'Connell, (editor)
ISBN #: B0109OAMWW
Price: $45.00
Publisher: The Catholic Press Inc.
Publisher Location: Chicago, IL
Book Condition: Good
Pub Date: 1964
Much wear with damage to covers the edges of which are intentionally bent into a shell like shape around the text. An early Confraternity edition of the Old and New Testaments. The Holy Name Deluxe edition with illustrations by the Old Masters. Published with the approbation of His Eminence Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago. Gilt decorated covers, a.e.g., silk book mark laid-in. Family records blank, the Bible is followed by sections on the seven Sacraments, The Mass, Saint's Names, the Stations of the Cross, A Catholic Dictionary. Between the Old and New Testaments is a section of color and b&w photographs from Leonard Von Matt's 1950 work Rome: The Art in Rome and the Papacy and the Vatican depicting the Vatican during the Papacy of Pius XII. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.