HORAE BMV Foucquet Jehan Oeuvre de Jehan Foucquet Heures de

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(HORAE B.M.V.) Foucquet, Jehan. Oeuvre de Jehan Foucquet. Heures de Maistre Étienne Chevalier. Texte restitué par l'Abbé Delaunay. Chromolithographed general and divisional titles, plates, and historiated, floral, or ornamental borders throughout. 2 volumes. 4to, brown levant by david with blind-stamped frame of fleurs-de-lis on covers, green silk doublures and endleaves; gilt edges; 1/4 morocco folding cases. Paris: L. Curmer, 1866

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first edition, limited to 550 sets. superb example of french color printing of the period, handsomely bound. "In this book, his ''last task,'' Curmer realized a long-standing ambition, to bring together the miniatures of Jehan Foucquet scattered throughout Europe . . . Volume one is devoted to the text . . . with borders drawn from fifteenth-century manuscripts, and fifty-nine miniatures, all chromolithographed by Lemercier. The second is devoted to the customary commentary . . . If the floral borders are not as spirited as those in Curmer''s earlier books, the miniatures are indeed a revelation"--Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in France 266. Carteret (1801-75) III, 244-45.