The altar book
Subtitle: containing the order for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist according to the use of the American church: MDCCCXCII. By authority
Publisher: D.B. Updike
Published: 1896
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Work titles: Book of common prayer. Communion service
Notes: Colophon: The making of this Altar book was begun about the feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist, A.D. Mdcccxciii, and finished at Easter, A.D. Mdcccxcvi, by Daniel Berkeley Updike and Harold Brown, laymen of thr Diocese of Rhode Island. The plain-song is arranged by Sir John Stainer ... the plates are designed by Robert Anning Bell; the borders, initials, type and cover by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue; and the colophons are engraved by Charles Sherborn. The type for this volume was set at the Merrymount press, Boston, and three hundred and fifty copies of the book were printed at the De Vinne

[cont.] press, New York. Published by Daniel Berkeley Updike, the Merrymount press, Boston, Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord MDCCCXCVI.

Engraved heraldic devices on t.-p. & recto of last leaf.