Second edition, in a contemporary binding with embroidered panels. Octavo. Bound in contemporary green straight-grained roan with cross-stitch embroidered panel to each board, metal clasp to fore-edge. All edges gilt.
A very good copy, the binding well-preserved, with some spotting and worming (mainly to pp. 365-448) internally.
Second edition of this Lindau-printed prayerbook by the German priest and pedagogue Johann Aloys Hassl, in an unusual binding incorporating embroidered panels with devotional motifs.
The front panel features a Sacred Heart in the centre and a Paschal Lamb beneath, bleeding into a chalice, while the rear panel shows a chalice, a palm, and a cross.
Der Tempel Gottes Das Herz
Author
Johann Aloys Hassl
Publisher
Lindau: Verlag der Kranzfelder’schen Buchhandlung
Date
1832