Description
Annual book of rites, with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, and three plates by Humblot, pictorial woodcut headpieces; faint water stain to front free endpaper, fading over the first quire, and the very occasional marginal mark, pp. 708, 8vo, contemporary royal French fanfare binding of full red morocco with the central arms and cypher of Louis XV, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with raised bands, lettered direct and with repeating fleur de lys, gilt edges, marbled endpapers; extremities very lightly rubbed; ownership inscription of one Mary Bryan; bookplate of Hon. Richard Eustace Bellew to upper pastedown, and red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to front free endpaper, very good