L'Office de la Semaine-Sainte A L'Usage du Roy.
BELLEGARDE, Monsieur L'Abbé de
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Jacques Collombat. 1741.
8vo. 212x133mm. pp. xvi, 632, [4]. Engraved frontispiece and half-title and engraved sectional title pages for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Handsomely bound in red morocco, covers decorated with lavish strapwork and foliage motifs in gilt surrounded by a gilt border of leaf and flower motifs. At the centre of each cover is the coat of arms of Louis XV. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with strapwork with the royal fleur de lys in the centre. Second compartment lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Corners slightly bumped, light rubbing to joints but overall a beautiful Royal binding in excellent condition. Internally very good with some foxing and some slight marginal staining to the frontispiece and half title. Printed for the for the Royal household (Collombat taught Louis XV to print), this Prayer Book and Missal sets out the services, prayers and devotions for Holy Week and the first week of Easter, beginning on Palm Sunday and ending on Quasimodo Sunday.
8vo. 212x133mm. pp. xvi, 632, [4]. Engraved frontispiece and half-title and engraved sectional title pages for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Handsomely bound in red morocco, covers decorated with lavish strapwork and foliage motifs in gilt surrounded by a gilt border of leaf and flower motifs. At the centre of each cover is the coat of arms of Louis XV. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with strapwork with the royal fleur de lys in the centre. Second compartment lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Corners slightly bumped, light rubbing to joints but overall a beautiful Royal binding in excellent condition. Internally very good with some foxing and some slight marginal staining to the frontispiece and half title. Printed for the for the Royal household (Collombat taught Louis XV to print), this Prayer Book and Missal sets out the services, prayers and devotions for Holy Week and the first week of Easter, beginning on Palm Sunday and ending on Quasimodo Sunday.