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(HORAE B.M.V.) Livre d'heures d'après les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale. 184 pages with chromolithographed general and divisional titles, plates, and ornamental borders throughout. Small 8vo, red velvet over boards with elaborate silver borders incorporating flowers, fruits, winged cherub heads, and blank crests, oval portrait miniature of an unidentified cleric in center of front cover, vertical silver decoration along spine, two silver clasps; gilt and gauffered edges, watered silk endleaves, rather amateurishly hand-colored leaf from a printed 16th-century liturgical work folded and partially mounted to front pastedown, four additional unrelated illustrations mounted to rear endpapers. Paris: Engelmann et Graf, 1846
