Lettres choisies des Pères

First edition illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Mariage after Correggio.
Full glazed blonde calf binding, spine with two raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and a black rectangular motif, gilt and black fillets, gilt dentelle, black raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons at head and with compartments, dots and gilt dentelle at foot, sky blue calf title-label, boards stamped in blind with a central fleuron, gilt fillets and blind decorative motifs framing the boards, gilt roulettes in the corners on the leading edges, pink paper pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.
Manuscript notes from previous owners on the front endpapers.
Boards lightly soiled, headcaps, leading edges and corners rubbed, foxing.