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Livre d'Heures : suivant le rit Romain / approuvé par Mgr. l'Evêque de Châlons, Marne.

Accession number
PML 197765
Published
Châlons-sur-Marne : Morizot, [1862]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Text in decorative chromolithographic borders; volume illustrated with 11 full page color illustrations, protected by printed guard sheets.
"par Barbat Père & Fils. Lithographes."
Volume based on designs of lithographic printers in Châlons-sur-Marne, Louis Barbat (1795-1870) and his son Pierre-Michel Barbat (1822-1886). It is possible that the Morizot firm reprinted them here and added their own plates, a series of chromolithographs after l'abbé Lambert.
Entirely lithographed.
Description
245 pages : color illustrations (chromolithographs) ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Volume inscribed from Hyacinthe Firmin Didot to Madame Prévotel, 1 May 1870, on the first of a series of blank pages in the "Souvenir" section following the title page.
Provenance
Gift inscription of Hyacinthe Firmin Didot (1794-1880) to Madame Prévotel, dated 1 May 1870.
Binding
Red morocco with an engraved silver cartouche on the front cover and silver clasps, by Deweerdt with his ticket, in a plush fabric-lined brown cardboard box with a metal clasp.
Classification
Department