Catholic Standard Library - Hierurgia; Or, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. With Notes and Dissertations Elucidating Its Doctrines and Ceremonies and Numerous Illustrations. Volumes I. & II .

London: John Hodges, Agar Street, Charing Cross, 1892 .. Third edition revised. 2 volumes. 8vo. 23cm x 15.5cm x 4cm. Vol. I. - [4pp.]pp.18/347, small owner's inkstamp to front free endpaper, cracking to inner rear hinge; Vol. II. - pp.15/[1p.]/pp.401,owner'sarmourial bookplate (Alfred Edward Alston) to front inside cover, occasional light spotting. Green cloth with bright gilt shield in a tree motif to each front board and bright gilt titles to the spines, edges slightly rubbed. A heavy two volume set which may attract extra to go overseas. ** " Daniel Rock (born 31 August 1799, Liverpool - died 28 November 1871 Kensington, London) was an English Roman Catholic priest, ecciesiologist and antiquarian. He resided at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, till 1840, with the exception of two years during which Lord Shrewsbury's generosity enabled him to stay at Rome collecting materials for his great work, Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which was published in 1833. He had previously published two short works: Transubstantiation vindicated from the strictures of the Rev. Maurice Jones (1830), and The Liturgy of the Mass and Common Vespers for Sundays (1832). In 1840 he became chaplain to Sir Robert Throckmorton of Buckland (then in Berkshire nowadays in Oxfordshire), and while there wrote his greatest book, The Church of Our Fathers, in which he studies the Sarum Rite and other medieval liturgical observances. This work, which has profoundly influenced liturgical study in England and which caused his recognition as the leading authority on the subject, was published in 1849 (vols. I and II) and 1853-4 (vol. III)." - See Wikipedia.