Lidl | Goldener Gnadenfluss, Vienna, 1753, in a silver binding

Joseph Anton Lidl and Johann Jacob Lidl

Goldener Gnaden Fluss, welcher das kostbahre Perl der Andacht einer Gott liebenden Seele ausgiesset in gegenwärtigen anmuthigen Gebett-Buch. Vienna: Joseph Anton Lidl and Johann Jacob Lidl, [1753]

8vo (135 x 90mm.), engraved throughout, frontispiece and imprimatur and section titles printed in blue, title-page printed in red and black, hand-coloured initials and headpieces up to p.95, nineteenth-century silver binding with pierced and engraved leafy scroll decoration with a cast Crucifixion on upper cover and a Madonna and Child on lower cover, two clasps, velvet board liners, gilt edges

An uncommon charming prayerbook, with an engraved dedication to Graf Veit Eusebius von Trautson; each copy contained a dedication to a different grandee.

PROVENANCE:

Veit Eusebius von Trautson, Graf zu Falckenstein (1688-1760), canon of Passau and Olmütz, engraved armorial and engraved dedication; Collezione S. Bulgari, Roma, sticker at head of lower cover