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F. KELLERHOVEN. La légende de Sainte Ursule, princesse britannique, et de ses onze mille vierges (The Legend of Saint Ursula, a British princess, and her eleven thousand virgins) Paris, l'auteur, s.d. (1861). In-4, cherry red morocco, the boards entirely covered with a Renaissance style decoration with straight and curved intertwining fillets and foliate motifs, spine with 5 nerves decorated in the same way, interior framing with lace, lining and endpapers of moiré silk prairie green, gilt head (Smeers). 218-(1f.). Text by J. B. Dutron, illustrated with 24 plates out of text including the dedication, a reproduction of inscription in black and 22 chromolithographs by Kellerhoven printed by Hangard-Mangé. 21 of the chromolithographs represent the paintings of the church of Saint Ursula in Cologne. The text is set in black frames with portraits and small historiated scenes. Ursula, daughter of a Breton Christian king of the late third or early fourth century, refused, along with other virgin girls, to be given in marriage to a pagan prince of Germanic origin. She fled with her companions, went to Rome on a pilgrimage, embarked on a ship that was shipwrecked and threw them on a bank of the Rhine where they were captured by the Huns and put to death for refusing to recant their faith. A superb copy despite some foxing on the endpapers.
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F. KELLERHOVEN. La légende de Sainte Ursule, princesse britannique, et de ses onze mille vierges (The Legend of Saint Ursula, a British princess, and her eleven thousand virgins) Paris, l'auteur, s.d. (1861). In-4, cherry red morocco, the boards entirely covered with a Renaissance style decoration with straight and curved intertwining fillets and foliate motifs, spine with 5 nerves decorated in the same way, interior framing with lace, lining and endpapers of moiré silk prairie green, gilt head (Smeers). 218-(1f.). Text by J. B. Dutron, illustrated with 24 plates out of text including the dedication, a reproduction of inscription in black and 22 chromolithographs by Kellerhoven printed by Hangard-Mangé. 21 of the chromolithographs represent the paintings of the church of Saint Ursula in Cologne. The text is set in black frames with portraits and small historiated scenes. Ursula, daughter of a Breton Christian king of the late third or early fourth century, refused, along with other virgin girls, to be given in marriage to a pagan prince of Germanic origin. She fled with her companions, went to Rome on a pilgrimage, embarked on a ship that was shipwrecked and threw them on a bank of the Rhine where they were captured by the Huns and put to death for refusing to recant their faith. A superb copy despite some foxing on the endpapers.
