Copy no. 1
From the Revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Doom of the kings. Translation by Patrick O. Moore with illustrations by Jeanette Olender-Papurt
Toledo, Ohio: The Clarino Press, 1982. Edition limited to 40 copies (this being copy no. 1); folio, pp. [6], 26, [4]; printed in blue and black; 6 copperplate etchings by Olender-Papurt who has also designed and printed the book; text paper is Arches Cover with Barcham Greens Turner Grey as endsheets; typefaces are 16-point Centaur & Arrighi; printing of the text was done at the Logan Elm Press; original black cloth, green lettering on spine. Fine. From the library of Kim Merker. "'Doom of the kings' is our title for this modern English version of a chapter (p. 63-87) of the fifteenth-century Middle English text published in The Revelations of Saint Birgitta, edited by William Patterson Cumming (London: Oxford University Press, 1929)" (Afterword). The work known as Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae was partly dictated by Birgitta, partly written by her in Swedish, to her confessors, who rendered her words into the Latin text from which the Middle English version, and all others, are derived. Item #61532
Price: $1,500.00
