[RELIURE] Heures à l'usage des élèves de l'école royale militaire

First edition.
Full olive morocco binding, smooth spine lavishly decorated with gilt fillets, rolls and fleurons, red morocco title-label, gilt rolls and tools, covers stamped with dentelle decoration, central monogram "CB" stamped at center of covers and framed by multiple fillets and rolls and surmounted by a ribbon, roll border on covers, gilt dentelle interior, pink marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, gilt fillet on edges, all edges gilt, contemporary binding attributable to the great binder Derôme le jeune. Marginal tear with loss of one word and page number (p. 57). Marginal tear without loss p. 113 and p. 451. Very light rubbing on half a centimeter of the upper joint, otherwise a superb copy in perfect condition. 
Decorated with a fleur-de-lis title vignette as well as head- and tailpieces. 
Sumptuous dentelle binding attributable to Derôme, on this rare book of hours for use by pupils of the École royale militaire. 
Several gilt tools are identical to the binding bearing Derôme's label preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (RES-G-370).
Worldcat records only one other institutional copy (BnF).  
A masterpiece of 18th-century binding in perfect condition.