RELIGIOUS BOOK. Charles MATHIEU. Book of prayers illustrated - Lot 85

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RELIGIOUS BOOK. Charles MATHIEU. Book of prayers illustrated - Lot 85
RELIGIOUS BOOK. Charles MATHIEU. Book of prayers illustrated with ornaments from medieval manuscripts. Paris, Rue du Four, 1858. Small in-8, chocolate brown morocco, rectangular nielloed silver pieces inlaid in the boards and the spine bearing, on the spine, the title Prayers and the date 1861, these silver pieces flaring out on the boards to form a pattern of interlacing whose stems end in fleur-de-lis, interior framed by a gilt lace, lining and endpapers of bright red moiré silk with golden ermines, edges decorated with the same, silver pieces on the edges and 2 silver clasps with the number J.L. (Simier). (6f.)-149-(4f.)-6 pl. Beautiful prayer book decorated with chromolithographs by Ch. Mathieu. The book is entirely decorated with chromolithographs, 23 of which are full-page and the others are harmonized around the text. Superb testimony of the richness of the books of mass very in vogue at the end of the XIXth century.
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