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Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum

Antwerpen
ex architypographia Plantiniana
1759

€400 - €500

4to (23,5 x 18 cm), 870 + 2 pp, title-page with engraved vignette, 1 blank, (41pp. incl. some woodcuts in red and black), engraved frontispiece, (index & printer's mark) with 56 full-page copper engravings, numerous wood engraved initials. 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

Very nice printed (in black and red) and unusually richly illustrated officium (book with official set of daily prayers, prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church, to be recited at the canonical hours by religious orders), which was meant for private use and therefore edited in a smaller format. Plantin's printing house developed the tradition of printing luxuriously religious, catholic editions; maybe not everything in this book is printed at the same time. Two copper engravings (p. 148 & 226) are signed: C. de Mallery. Some scratchings on the cover; otherwise a very fine copy

Catholic devotion