The Illuminated Christian Year

Jean Lee

1870, Duffield Ashmead, Philadelphia

A curious American color plate book, produced by one of the most accomplished color printers, Duffield Ashmead. This production consists entirely of ten plates: an ornate title, followed by plates celebrating Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, White, Sunday, and the Trinity. Each plate is accompanied by a prayer. Ashmead employed a broad palette of rich greens, purples, reds, and blues across his plates, to which he has added generous amounts of gilt he was at the forefront of color printing during his time.  Very Rare with copies when found selling for $1000+, this copy in very good condition with some rubbing to the leather as pictured, binding holding well and plates clean, buyer to pay $4 shipping.