[DOUDELET, Charles)

In-folio (ca. 34,5 x 25 cm), 320, (12) pp. Every page illustrated with decorations and in-texto plates and 24 full-page illustrations by Charles Doudelet on shaped paper with large watermark and broad margins; text is imitation of manuscript. Limited edition; numbered on the press: 299; lovely decorated endpapers. Original blind tooled (Saint Francis) half leather binding over wooden boards with gilt title on three raised bands and with two copper-and-leather clasps, full-page frontispiece with blank verso, Binding made by ""Cooperativa Mutilati"" at Rome. Some imperfections upper- and downer spine; otherwise a very fine copy