Author: SERVICES FOR HOLY WEEK.
Title: L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, a l'Usage de la Maison du Roy. Imprimè aux Breviaires & Messels Romain & Parisien. Avec les Cérémonies de l'Eglise. Nouvelle Edition.
Description: A Paris, Rues. Jacques, De l'Imprimerie de Jacques Collobat, Premier Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, du Cabinet, Maison & Batiments de Sa Majesté. 1743. 8vo, 197 x 120 mms., pp. [xvi], 608, engraved frontispiece and title-page after Antoine Homblot, engraved sectional title-pages after Nicolas Le Sueur, bound in full contemporary red morocco, gilt fleur-de-lys border rolls, with the arms in gilt on the covers of the French royal family, (here, probably those of Louis XV (1710 - 1774), known as Louis the Beloved), spine ornately gilt in compartments to a fleur-de-lys motif, red morocco label, all edges gilt; some occasional foxing, slight wear to binding extremities, but a very good to fine copy, with the library stamp of the Bibliotheca Prov. Anglicae on the recto of the front free end-paper, and the following inscription: "James Stewart Forbes/ d. d./ James Johnston Bevan/ In Test. Fran. Edwards [R?], A.. D. 1845."

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