[Luxuriously bound for "M.W."] Missel Romain

contenant les offices des principales fêtes et les évangiles de tous les dimanches de l'année. Tours, A. Mame et Fils, 1897, (6),315,(1) p., with 7 woodcut plates and numberous small illustrations in borders by Méaulle after L. Mouchot, each page with rich floral chromolithographic border printed in gold and colours by Habert-Dys, luxuriously bound by Corné Germon (Brussels) in full marbled brown leather, the richly gilt boads and spine decorated with fleurs-de-lys and stars within gilt borderlines, inside of boards with rich gilt ornamental borders, moiré silk endpapers with monogram "M.W.", all edges gilt, small 8vo, in original box (damaged).

Richly finished book in every way, in which the exclusive technique of printing in gold and colours was taken to a level of perfection unmatched since.