Heures du Moyen Age

by Gruel Binding. Book of Hours

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Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1887. 5 x 6. CXCII pages, each richly illuminated by chromolithography in colors and gold + 12 full page illustrations, and terminal pages to record family births, marriages, etc. Each leaf is tipped to a hinge, allowing the book to be opened flat. Bound by Gruel signed at spine base, in full red morocco gilt in a pattern of an elaborate cross, fleur-de-lis and the initials H B; gilt & gauffered edges, turn-ins gilt, woven

• Binding: Leather

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