The Marriage Ring by Jeremy Taylor. 1907 Fine leather Binding by Monastery Hill.

Description: The Marriage Ring by Jeremy Taylor. 1907 Fine leather Binding by Monastery Hill. The Marriage Ring by The Right Reverend Jeremy Taylor, D.D. A reprint from the fourth edition of his ̓Ενιαυτος, published in 1673, edited with notes by Francis Coutts. With a photogravure frontispiece after Perugino's Marriage of the Virgin London / New York: The John Lane Company, 1907. Fine leather binding by Monastery Hill Bindery (Chicago, IL) Blue-green morocco leather with elaborate gilt tooled borders and decorations on front and rear boards, ribbed spine with gilt decorations and title, blue moire patterned blue watered silk doublures bordered by gilt tooled dentelles, watered silk endpapers, gilt top edges. Small quarto (10 x 8 inches), 46 pages, engraved frontispiece, original front wrapper bound in at end. Signed by bindery on rear pastedown. A wonderfully custom bound volume probably originally intended as a wedding present. The binder was probably Ernst Hertzberg or his son, Edward, but only the bindery’s name is tooled in gilt at the bottom f the rear doublure. “Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord."” JEREMY TAYLOR, The Marriage Ring Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language. He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 August. Taylor was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. He went on to become chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I as a result of Laud's sponsorship. This made him politically suspect when Laud was tried for treason and executed in January 1644/5 by the Puritan parliament during the English Civil War. After the parliamentary victory over the King, he was briefly imprisoned several times. Eventually, he was allowed to live quietly in Wales, where he became the private chaplain of the Earl of Carbery. After the Restoration, he was made Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland. He also became vice-chancellor of the University of Dublin. Taylor is best known as a prose stylist; his chief fame is the result of his twin devotional manual, Holy Living and Holy Dying. (The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650 and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651). These books were favourites of John Wesley, and admired for their prose style by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, and Thomas de Quincey. “Until 1905, when the bindery's headquarters were up a flight of stairs over Henrici's Restaurant on Randolph Street, members of the most fashionable families in town regularly stopped in at both locations, bearing books to be rebound, cleaned, personalized and otherwise preserved for practical use as well as for posterity. The Palmers, the Armours and the McCormicks chose gold-tooled leather bindings in designs the family-owned company still offers for treasured volumes that clients and collectors bring in.” From article by Abigail Foerstner, CHICAGO TRIBUNE ,July 28, 1996 Monastery Hill Bindery Ernst Hertzberg - The Beginning Although 1868 is Monastery Hill’s celebrated year of origin, its story actually begins years before in the small town of Gramzow, Germany. That was when the original founder, Ernst Hertzberg, began learning the craft of bookbinding. In his early childhood, Ernst had often played on the ruins of an old monastery outside of town. The young boy quickly developed an interest in the scribing and binding practices of the monastery’s former monks, and at only eight years old, Ernst began apprenticing with a local bookbinder. A short time later, Ernst immigrated to the United States and started his new life working as a helper in a Chicago lumberyard. Because of his early experience with bookbinding, however, he soon landed a job with Ringer Book Bindery located on Randolph Street, just above the legendary Henrici’s Restaurant. Within ten years, he was given the opportunity to buy into ownership of the firm. In 1902, the bookbinding business moved to its current location on Belmont Street in the Chicago neighborhood of West Lakeview. In the early years of the business, Ernst Hertzberg produced some truly notable bookbinding masterpieces. One particular work was a twelve-volume set entitled Sloan’s Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Ernst meticulously assembled the set from a collection of over 150 letters he had purchased, which contained correspondence between Napoleon and many of his generals, dignitaries, and friends. The unique set also included maps depicting Napoleon’s campaigns and battle plans as well as over 4,000 steel and copper engravings of people, places, and events involved in Napoleon’s life. Ernst finished the set by binding the books in a beautiful green crushed Moroccan goatskin with gold-tooled emblems and designs. When the set was finally complete, his achievement won the gold medal for bookbinding at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and sold three years later for $12,000 (which is around $300,000 in today’s dollars.) Even today, it is considered one of the most elaborate and unique sets of books in existence. It was eventually donated to the University of Iowa Library, where it remains to this day. The Napoleon set is significant to the company’s history because Ernst used the proceeds from the sale to buy out his partners at Ringer & Hertzberg Bindery. He promptly changed the name to Ernst Hertzberg and Sons, Monastery Hill Bindery. The name “Monastery Hill” was chosen in remembrance of the ruins of the ancient monastery in his hometown of Gramzow, which inspired his career. Hertzberg worked for forty-nine years in Chicago. He hired and trained many brilliant bookbinders, all of who helped establish Monastery Hill Bindery as a premier business in the trade. In 1918, Ernst passed away and was succeeded by his oldest son, Edward. Edward Hertzberg Like his father, Edward was a superb binder, and under his tenure, the reputation of Monastery Hill continued to grow. Chicago libraries were being amassed in the early 1900’s, and Monastery Hill gained national prominence as a fine binder. By virtue of his meticulous nature, Edward Hertzberg was known to be a difficult man to work for. As a result, his four brothers eventually left Monastery Hill to start their own binderies in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Des Moines, and Spokane, Washington. However, Edward was a perfectionist and an excellent teacher, and he was able to teach the bookbinding trade to many Monastery Hill employees, including the legendary Joseph Zuffant.” From the bindery’s web site CONDITION: Very Good+. (Covers hae shelfwear, corners bumped and a bit worn, leather rubbed at spine joints. Contents are complete, clean and intact except that the pages have a small worm hole at the lower fore corner.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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