Gérard Jean-Baptiste II SCOTIN
Office de la semaine sainte
Chez La veuve Mazières • Garnier|Paris 1746|13 x 20 cm|relié
Edition in Latin and French illustrated with three plates by Scotin and a beautiful frontispiece title. With the avertissement
Fine contemporary fanfare binding, with the arms of Maria Josepha of Saxony, mother to the last three kings of France, spine with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lys, covers eloraborately tooled in gold to a fanfare design in the style of Florimond Badier (same as the one in Les Reliures d'art à la Bibliothèque Nationale, pl. 74), with the arms of Maria-Josepha of Saxony (O.H.R. pl. 2526, no. 2), green and gilt tabby pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt. Corners, joints, and spine-ends very skillfully restored. A few slightly foxed pages.
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Fine contemporary fanfare binding, with the arms of Maria Josepha of Saxony, mother to the last three kings of France, spine with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lys, covers eloraborately tooled in gold to a fanfare design in the style of Florimond Badier (same as the one in Les Reliures d'art à la Bibliothèque Nationale, pl. 74), with the arms of Maria-Josepha of Saxony (O.H.R. pl. 2526, no. 2), green and gilt tabby pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt. Corners, joints, and spine-ends very skillfully restored. A few slightly foxed pages.
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