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Title: Petit paroissien de la jeunesse
Description: Paris: Marcilly (c. 1840); 64mo (4.3x2.8cm), (10+)96(+2)pp., 5 steel engravings, all edges gilt, mother-of-pearl cover w. laid-in cross and velvet endpapers and spine. The velvet spine somewhat perished but still good; front and back cover excellent. Inscription on endpaper. This edition v. rare, perhaps unique. ¶ Miniature book. Inscriptions on 2nd endpaper: No. 36 / No. 9; on 3rd endpaper: 'Priez / pour votre / amie / Elise. / Amersfort / le 9 Déc. [18]'57. No other copies known with this luxury cover (not in Bibliothèque nationale de France, nor Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana).

Keywords: 19th century France catholica miniature books