Book Condition Bound padded black morocco covers with simple gilt & green tooled vine, flower & cross on front cover; gilt title on spine. Working strap & snap; gilt & red page edges are gauffered. Black cloth front endpapers and rear free endpaper. Paste-down rear endpaper is tooled in gilt with a decorative edge and gilt candlestick plus line designs and 4 round balls at bottom; top half with green flap tooled with gilt cross & border, that lifts up to reveal a circular pocket lined with blue, red & green floral design. There is an insert to the pocket that moves up and down when the leather strap is moved up and down. Title printed in read & black; all pages printed within red ruled border. Leather is wearing and split 1-3mm at top and bottom of both hinges; leather rubbed some and just wearing through at three corners; page edges worn some with several starts, pages tanned.
Size 6.1 x 9.8cm
Highlights Small Polish Prayer Book, Printed in Grudziadz, Poland, 1926, Leather, with Hidden Pocket inside rear cover 1926
Location Published Grudziadz, Poland
Book Number 17803
GAJEWSKI, PIOTR. Anioł Stróż albo Książka do Nabożeństwa. Ulożyl Ks. Piotr Gajewski, M.S.F. Kevelaer. Nakladem Ksiegarni Józefa Thuma i. F. K. Sikorskiego, Grudziądz. 1926 r. Printed in Poland. 6.1 x 9.8cm (outside) or 5.9 x 9.4cm (inside). $125.00 Bound padded black morocco covers with simple gilt & green tooled vine, flower & cross on front cover; gilt title on spine. Working strap & snap; gilt & red page edges are gauffered. Black cloth front endpapers and rear free endpaper. Paste-down rear endpaper is tooled in gilt with a decorative edge and gilt candlestick plus line designs and 4 round balls at bottom; top half with green flap tooled with gilt cross & border, that lifts up to reveal a circular pocket lined with blue, red & green floral design. There is an insert to the pocket that moves up and down when the leather strap is moved up and down. Title printed in read & black; all pages printed within red ruled border. Leather is wearing and split 1-3mm at top and bottom of both hinges; leather rubbed some and just wearing through at three corners; page edges worn some with several starts, pages tanned. Pagination: (1) title, (1) Imprimatur, (1) dedication, p.4 table of dates, 5-12 contents-feasts, 13-320pp prayer book. There is a sepia frontispiece of Christ on the cross. There are 9 b&w illustrations printed in the text including a small circular one of a medallion containing Pope Leon XIII. The other 8 picture a priest at various stations in the church. Name in earlier pen written on front flyleaf: Micozuslaw Piskadlo A charming little Polish Prayer Book with some wear but still quite nice.
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