[RELIGIOSA] Jehan FOUCQUET - Works Published by Curmer, Paris, 1866 - A superb copy of the original first edition of this "splendid publication reproducing by chromolithography, in gold and color, the 15th-century miniatures of Jehan Foucquet" (Brunet). Vicaire, III, 766, Brunet, Supp. I, 513; Carteret, III, 244-245. 550 copies of this extraordinarily luxurious publication were printed. This copy is that of Baron d'Alayrac, numbered 188. Magnificent bindings in the style of Grolier in full brown morocco, with mosaic-covered boards in red and fawn interleaves, 5-rib spines with red morocco fillet frames, gilded edges and gilded lacework on the inside covers. Gilt roulettes at the head and tail, double gilt fillets at the edges. Bindings signed L. Curmer. Bindings slightly rubbed, but not severe. The first volume contains a portrait and 53 hors-texte plates with the Office of the Virgin, the Office of the Passion, Saints, readings and meditations, Antiquités Judaïques by Flavius Joseph. The second volume includes 5 hors-texte plates and 17 chromolithographed titles, each page also framed in chromolithography, the list of subscribers, the preface and biography of Jeahan Fouquet, a description of both his works and the miniatures in the first volume, a description of the ornaments in the text of the Book of Hours by M. Estienne Chevalier, a figure by Fossey after a Pompeii terracotta engraved by Colin printed on Chine. A few very slight tears at the end of some pages in the mitre mount, not serious. In-4, T1: (12) 214pp, T2: 2pp, 10pp, 8pp, 42pp, 24pp (2), 12pp, 168pp, 42pp (9).