1756 Rare French Latin Book - Office of Holy Week, Office de la Semaine SainteTitle: LOffice de la Semaine Sainte en Latin et en Franois, lusage du diocse de Rouen. Publisher: Rouen, Chez Pierre Seyer, Imprimeur de Monseigneur lArchevque, 1756. Language: Text in Latin and French. Size: 6. 5 x 4 inches. Pages: Unpaginated. Binding: Very good and beautiful contemporary full red morocco binding richly decorated in gilt with an elegant dentelle style border to both covers. Spine elaborately gilt in compartments with raised bands

one of the most important royal printers under Louis XIV

Pages: iii-206 pages

Illustrated by Paul Hardy

The survival of the publisher’s musical advertising insert further enhances the charm and collectibility of the volume

and sophisticated use of color

Annaei Senecae & Catullus Tibullus Propertius &Junii Juvenalis et Alvi Persii Flacci

Her work for La Vita Nuova is among her finest achievements

The author: Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 – 1879) was a pioneering American editor

rare light foxing - as shown

a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature)

Publisher: Munich

What makes this volume truly extraordinary is its unique artistic enhancement: rather than being merely illustrated