Description and condition:

Maroon cloth hardback, 12mo, 266pp, b/w illustrations.

Good copy with 3/4 inch split to head of spine, name stamp on FFEP, scattered foxing on and off throughout, good solid binding.

Contents:

A directory of male religious orders, most of them illustrated with a photograph of a member in the robes of the order, and with a brief history of its foundation and function: Alexian Brothers; Augustinian Hermits; Basilians; Benedictines; Brothers of Charity; Brothers of the Christian Schools; Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God; Brothers of Mercy; Brothers of the Presentation; Brothers of St. Patrick; Canons Regular of the Lateran; Canon Regular of St. Norbert; Canons Regular of the Holy Cross; Capuchins; Carmelites; Carmelite Tertiaries; Carthusians; Christian Brothers; Cistercians; Congregation of the Mission; Congregation of St. Francis of Sales; Dominicans; Fathers of Charity; Franciscans; Institute of St. Andrew; Josephites; Lazarists; Marist Fathers; Marist Brothers; Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Oblates of St. Charles; Oblates of St. Francis of Sales; Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Oratorians; Passionists; Pious Society of Missions; Premonstratensians; Picpus Fathers; Redemptorists; Rosminians; Salesians; Salvatorians; Servites; Society of Jesus; Society for African Missions; Society for Foreign Missions; Vincentian Fathers; Xaverian Brothers

With an appendix on the Religious Houses of America, and a preface by George Ambrose the Bishop of Clifton, Bristol.