MISSEL DES SAINTES FEMMES DE FRANCE. [MISSAL OF THE HOLY WOMEN OF FRANCE] Avec Illustration par ELISABETH SONREL

SONREL, Elisabeth (Illustrator)
Published by Maison A. Mame et Fils in Tours, France 1900
SKU: 59091
£85.00
Small 8vo. (approx. 16.5 x 12.5cm) hardback in full dark brown morocco, gilt, with decorative metal initials to upper board. Gilt dentelles and endpapers of dark green moire silk. a.e.g. Foredge gilt over marbling. TEXT IN FRENCH. Pages unnumbered. All text pages with one colour (varied) illustrated borders to two sides of text and gilt borders. With 9 colour plates (including frontispiece) all with captioned tissue-guards. Light foxing to versos of colour plates. Frontispiece tissue-guard creased at one corner. Small areas of light rubbing to gilt dentelles of front and rear pastedowns. Slightest rubbing to top and base of spine. A VERY GOOD, HANDSOME COPY.