Author: Z (Plantin - Book of prayers) A.A.
Title: Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis. Nuper reformatum, & S.Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum: Ad Instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII. recogniti.
Description: Anverpiae (Antwerp), Ex Architypographia Plantiniana, M.D.CC.LIX. (1759). Gilt full red calf on 5 raised bands with gilt vignets, gilt green morocco letterpiece, gilt green border on front- and backcover connecting in the corners with a gilt rectangle in the middle, gilt borders on the verso of the front- and backcover, all edges gilt, titlepage with engraved vignet, 1 blank, (41pp. incl. some woodcuts in red and black), engraved frontispiece, 870+2pp. (index & printer's mark) with 56 full-page copperengravings, numerous woodengraved initials. 23,5 x 18 cm.Very nice printed (in black and red) and unusually richly illustrated officium (book with offificial set of daily prayers, prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church, to be recited at the canonical hours by religious orders), which was ment for private use and therefore edited in a smaller format. Plantin's printing house developped the tradition of printing luxuriously religious, catholic editions; maybe not everything in this book is printed at the same time. Two copperengravings (p. 148 & 226) are signed: C. de Mallery. Some scratchings on the cover; otherwise a very fine copy!

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