Livre de Mariage. The wedding ceremony and Mass for Cécile Baudrier and Maurice Poussilgue

by Illuminated manuscript

$15,000 · Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book

Paris , Église Saint-Augustin, July 8, 1890. 5 x 6. 55 leaves embellished on the rectos + numerous blanks, all vellum, tipped to tabs. About half the leaves have offset onto the facing blank versos. These appear as shadows around the paintings; they range from pronounced to faint. Half the leaves have no shadows. Bound by L. Loilsellier in brown morocco Jansenist, turn-ins gilt in several borders, leather hinges, silk moire endpapers, one with

• Binding: Leather

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