[Rarebooks] FS: Archeology of the Altar -1881

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Heales, Major Alfred.  "The Archaeology of the Christian Altar in Western
Europe; with its Adjuncts, Furniture, and Ornaments"

London; Roworth & Co., Limited: 1881.

This interesting text was based on notes gathered for two lectures at the
St. Paul’s Ecclesiological Society, augmented here with additional
material. Major Heales, using actual or historical examples, begins with a
summary of the development of the form, structure, and material of the
altar, their number and placement in churches, consecration, portable
altars, and desecration and destruction. He then turns to altar furniture
and fittings, including frontals and coverings, canopies, reredos,
super-altars, ornaments, chalices & patens, the corporal, pall, burse and
veil, the reed, the pyx, monstrances, tabernacles, cruets, crosses,
candlesticks, paxes, books, cushions, flowers, censers, and sancta-bells.
There are indexes for terms, names and places. Major Heales wrote or
edited a number of ecclesiastical histories.

Hardcover. 5.75”x8.75”, viii + 96 pages, lithographed frontispiece and
several line illustrations in the text; bound in full period polished calf
with gilt rules and corner emblems; gilt-lettered spine label; covers with
some rubbing, contents with a  little soil, etc. but a handsome copy. 
[09500]  $125.00

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