L'office de la Semaine-Sainte, a l'usage de la Maison du Roy. Conformément aux Breviaires & Messels Romain & Parisien. En Latin & en François. Avec l'explication des Cérémonies de l'Eglise, et des Instructions, Prieres & courtes Réflexions sue les Mystéres & Offices que l'on célébre dans cette Sainte Semaine. Par Monsieur l'Abbé de Bellegarde,

Publication details: A Paris, De l'imprimerie de Jacques-François Collombat,1748,

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This record of Holy Week rites for use of the French royal household, bound in a royal fanfare binding of full red morocco, gilt, with the arms and cypher of Louis XV (OHR 2495-9). The plates by Antoine Humblot depit Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the crucifixion, and the resurrection; signposting the ritual observances for Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, as well as the broader Catholic ceremony surrounding Lent and Easter.The binding here is a fine example of the kind of fanfare binding produced for the Royal household, with a very similar design appearing in Hobson's Les Reliures la fanfare (1935) pl. XXIII.

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1748, pp. 708, 8vo, contemporary royal French fanfare binding of full red morocco with the central arms and cypher of Louis XV, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with raised bands, lettered direct and with repeating fleur de lys, gilt edges, marbled endpapers; extremities very lightly rubbed; ownership inscription of one Mary Bryan; bookplate of Hon. Richard Eustace Bellew to upper pastedown, and red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to front free endpaper, very good

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