Horae B.M.V.

Guilbert, A[line]. Livre d'Heures ou Office de l'Eglise illustrés d'après les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi. Paris: D. Jouaust for Gruel/Engelmann, 1872



8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.; 205 x 133 mm). Half-title, title within a full border, 98 pages of full-color facsimiles. Modern maroon crushed morocco, dentelles, maroon watered-silk doublures and endleaves, in a maroon cloth slipcase.



[With an updated facsimile reproduction of a printed horae:] Les présentes heures à l'usage de Rome, ornées de figures d'après l'édition de Simon Vostre du xxii Aout Mil. CCCC. iiiivv. xviii [sic], nouvellement gravées par E. Mouchon. Paris: D. Jouaust for L. Gauthier, 27 December 1890



8vo. Antique blind-tooled calf with gilt highlights, edges gilt, red brocade doublures and endleaves, gilt-stamped monogram "M.F." on front doublure.

Robert Hoe, Catalogue of books in foreign languages published after the year 1600, (1909), vol. 2, p. 262 (Guilbert); Vicaire, Manual 4:90 (Mouchon)

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Splendid examples of the revival of interest in medieval illumination in the 19th-century, and the perfection of color reproduction.