Lancelot Andrewes Press has announced that their augmented reprint of the American Missal should be available in April of this year. The cost will be $185 + $10 USPS Priority Mail.
Fr. John at LA Press provided me with the following information about the new volume back in October.
My best estimate is the reprint will be on better paper, about 512 ppi, better bound, and therefore not so infernally heavy to move about as the original and probably sustain daily use a bit better. There will be added to the middle three Canons for the use of Orthodox Western Rite clergy and which can be totally ignored by Anglican clerics. There will be added some Proper Masses in a final appendix which can be ignored by those who do not need, want, desire, or observe, those Saints' days. We are using a fine printer who has the finest Bavarian presses and does very good work.
We will leave the American Canon with the rubrics for missa cantata as Fr. Maddox set it up. We will add the WRV edited Canon with rubrics that are like those of the Anglican Missal in the American edition which assume a solemn Mass with Deacon and Subdeacon. We will add the 4th edition English Missal Canon 1940 of the Gregorian in English…. in the opinion of many the finest rendering in English of the Missale Romanum, and the odd Canon of Fr. Alexander Turner of 1958 which is standard for our Gregorian Parishes. You pays your money and you takes your choice. The only ones I will use will be the WRV version of the American Canon and the 1940 English Missal.
Size as the original only not a thick because of superior opaque paper. Cloth cover stamped. The technical bits about binding are beyond me but Thomson-Shore uses a very strong binding that has little glue and lots of threads… like the third printing of St. Duntan's Psalter or the second printing of the Monastic Diurnal Noted… both rather big books that lay flat from the first day and never make that nasty sound of glue popping loose. If you have either book you can tell me how it is manufactured. I observe that they both hold up very well in twice daily use over several years… as much as any Altar Missal would be used. We will also have stained page edges as in the original. I might go for gilded page edges as in the 4 Ed. English Missal just because after 70 years the pages are still clean and preserved from dirt and handling. I will not supply tabs because they are of little practical value and they induce most of the damage done to Missals if you observe what happens to pages with tabs. I hate them.
You can contact Fr. John at info@andrewespress.com. If anyone can provide updated information about this missal, please post the news in the comments.
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The Anglican Catholic Diocese of New Orleans is also reprinting the American Missal, but without any changes other than the posible addition of the Gregorian and 1549 Canons in an appendix.
The American Missal project is complete as to newly typeset material. The scans of the original required vast work on both the black and magenta type plus acres of cleaning up partly due to the old paper going off and getting spotty. All has been accomplished and sent to the printer. We guess a late May delivery date. Sorry for the delay but sadly, very sadly, life demands more than just printing pretty books. Alas.
need to know postal address of LA Press…wish to order the newly printed American Altar Missal.
Thanks, Fr. Frederick
Sent by email also.
Lancelot Andrewes Press
P. O. Box 460186
Glendale, CO. 80246