[Postincunable printed on vellum] "Missale printed on vellum by Verard ca. 1500".

81 (of ?) vellum sheets printed on both sides, each leaf with centered text surrounded by borders in detailed, very often varying metalcuts by Philippe Pigouchet (e.g. an amazing danse macabre series) and others, with 7 full-page metalcuts and 2 identical 3/4-page metalcuts, with many pasted gilt initials from manuscripts, finely bound in 19th-century blindstamped and gilt English red morocco with spine title: "Missale. Printed on vellum", 18.5 x 12 cm. (bookblock 17.6 x 11 cm.), all edges gilt, in incorrectly-sized cloth dropback box with spine label carrying the title as copied by us.

Present are the following quires of 8 leaves each: B, C, D, H, K, L, M, N and O. Also present are quire P (the last 4 leaves) and quire I, all with some uncertainty as only the first leaves of the quires carry a signature. The signature of quire O was misprinted (I), which has been antiquely corrected in manuscript. A number of previously pasted initials are missing. In all a lovely copy with the name of well-known trader in early printings, Harry H. Peach (1874-1936) in pen on a free endpaper and "FR 1830" in pen on the reverse of the same endpaper. Added in photocopy a number of pages from Renouard, repertoire des imprimeurs Parisiens (1965), incl. information on printer Antoine Ier Verard (Verad) (active 1485-1513): "Un des plus grands éditeurs Français et l'un des premiers qui aient vulgarisé l'illustration dans ses livres (...) richement miniaturés."