Item #1563 A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll. Niall Campbell.
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll
A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll

A Breton Pilgrimage; The Grand Troménie of Locronan in Amorican Cornwall, Held every Sixth Year, seen in July 1911 and Described by Niall, Duke of Argyll

London: The Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1914. Orginal pale blue paper boards (8 7/8 inches tall), plain printed title label, cream cloth spine, uncut. Several pencil marks to text, else crisp and clean internally, light toning and spotting to boards. A near-fine copy. Item #1563

"MAY THE SAINTS OF BOTH THE BRITAINS AND OF IRELAND PRAY FOR US"

Scarce first edition of this account of the 1911 Grand Troménie of Locronan—vividly described by Niall Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, and illustrated with a frontispiece and 10 additional photographic plates. Published by the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, this volume was printed on fine handmade paper by the Chiswick Press and decorated with ornaments on the half title, title page and the last page of the text.

Known as "Un pays de Foi," (A Land of Faith), Brittany was a "strange diocese" of the Celtic races where "old customs of the faith live on in an enduring grandeur." The Amorican peninsula is the site of the Grand Troménie, "a special pardon" held in honor of the medieval Saint Ronan, every six years on the second Sunday of July, drawing "a vast procession of pilgrims drawn from the whole of Amorican Cornwall." Niall Campbell, "the Duke of Argyll added social prestige" (Evelyn Waugh) to the Society of SS. Peter and Paul in its early years. Described in his 1949 obituary as "Scotland's most picturesque Duke," Campbell was said to despise telephones and automobiles, and spent his final years in what was called "monastic seclusion." Campbell's account is divided in sections headed: 1. S. Ronan, 2. The Troménie, 3. The Troménie as it is To-day, and also includes The Ancient Ordo of the Solemn Supplications commonly called Troménie. The text concludes: "May Saint Ronan and the all the Saints honoured at the Troménie intercede for us / Argyll." Gathered after the text, the captioned photographs were taken from contemporary picture postcards (mostly supplied by the permission of Monsieur Villard of Quimper).

Price: $150.00

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