Shrine Publications
The archives contain Walsingham publications from the earliest days of the Restoration. Fortunately a
complete set of Our Lady's Mirror has survived, from which we can chart the appearance of guides,
manuals and history booklets. Yet even this source is not comprehensive, and we still occasionally come
across the hitherto unknown. Our Lady’s Mirror now has its own website.
Guides and manuals in particular have run into many editions, some of which we still need to make up
complete series.
Many original texts have been scanned and are available on this and the other three archive websites -
links to over twenty of those on this site are below. In general only the Shrine's own publications can be
shown in full, for copyright reasons.
first Pilgrims' Manual
(1928):
click here to go to full
scanned text of 1st
edition, and from there
to 5th edition (1952)
The Little Guide to the
Sanctuary of Our Lady of
Walsingham (1931): the earliest
detailed Guide to the Shrine
click here to go to full scanned
text of 1st edition, and from
there to 5th edition (1939)
Walsingham: England's
Nazareth (this ran into
eight editions: 1974
edition above)
click on picture to go
to full details of all
editions
A tract on Pilgrimage by
Fr Patten: this is the front
cover of the 3rd & 4th
edns which were
illustrated by Enid
Chadwick; click on
picture to go to full
scanned text of 2nd
edition (in different
format: text is the same)
England's National
Shrine of Our Lady -
Past and Present
(1938)
dedicated to Sir
William Milner; many
illustrations by Enid
Chadwick
click on picture to
go to full scanned
text
The Pilgrims Almanac
1928 : a pilgrimage
journal published
jointly with Talbot &
Co :: intended to be
annual but this
appears to be the first
and only edition
not shown here
Walsingham: Its
Pilgrimage Past &
Present, by a
member of the
Society of OLW: two
editions 1933 and
1938 (revised);
click on picture to
go to full scanned
text of 1st edn, and
from there to 2nd
extracts from
Erasmus's record of his
pilgrimage to
Walsingham: click on
picture to go to full
scanned text of 1st edn
(1931), and from there
to 2nd (1939)
The Walsingham
Shrine and its works
click on picture to
go to full scanned
text of 1st edn
(1948), and from
there: to 2nd (1950)
The Walsingham
Tales
(in the style of the
Canterbury Tales)
not shown here
Our Lady in England
and her Ancient
National Shrine
(1934)
click on picture to
go to full scanned text
of 1st edn, and from
there to 2nd
Holy House
leaflet No. 1
click on
picture to go to
full scanned text
of the first,
fourth and sixth
impressions
