223 - Collective work: Book of Prayers, published by Ch. Mathieu. Paris, 1858.

Collective work: Book of Prayers, published by Ch. Mathieu. Paris, 1858. 1 volume, in-12, bound in full navy blue morocco leather in its blue percaline slipcase. Plain binding, edges gilded and chiseled. Inside covers lined with brown morocco embossed with fleurs-de-lis; flying endpapers of blue moiré (Kauffmann binding). A luxurious book of hours whose leaves, mounted on tabs, are chromolithographed with gold highlights. Included in its black cardboard box are 4 Roman parish almanacs in 16mo format for the 4 seasons, dated 1869, bound in full red morocco leather, with a ribbed spine bearing the title, covers bearing initials, and all edges gilt and marbled. Slight scuffs from normal use. Rare in its original box.