Quarto. [24], 356pp. Without additional engraved title-page, with five engraved plates. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Rubbed, slight loss to head of spine. Armorial bookplate of Robert James Lord Petre to FEP alongside late nineteenth-century book-label of Gulielmi O'Brien and shelf-label of Milltown Park Library, FFEP very nearly detached - with booksellers catalogue descriptions pasted to recto, ink-stamp of Milltown Park Library to title, else internally clean and crisp.

Franciscan Friar Richard Mason [name in religion Angelus a Sancto Francisco] (1599/1600-1678). Originally published in 1636, the work contains a catalogue of the writings of English Franciscans; four martyrs and one confessor (each accompanied by an engraved portrait). In addition Mason discusses the various facets of the English Franciscan experience, including martyrdom and the apostolate of the printed word. The appendix describes missionary works in Japan, India, Morocco, and England.