OFICIO DE LA VIRGEN MARIA, ANTWERP, PLANTIN, 1752, CONTEMPORARY BINDING WITH FLORAL ONLAYS

24mo (116 x 68mm.), printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary cream morocco with coloured morocco inlays in a floral pattern with gilt dots on the background, spine tooled in coloured compartments, gilt edges, binding rubbed, joints cracked and rubbed; sold as a binding not subject to return

Libreria de Funt, Barcelona, ink stamp on title-page; from the library of Robert, duc de Chartres (1840-1910), sale, Sotheby's, 4 March 1958, lot 266

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A charming binding in the style of Lemonnier (for a similar binding, see Davis Gift 176).