L'Office de la quinzaine de Pasque

L'Office de la quinzaine de Pasque, Latin-François, à l'usage de Rome et de Paris, pour la maison de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, premier prince du sang.

Paris, Chez d'Houry, 1743

In-8 (205 x 135 mm): [3] ff., XXXV-631 pp., [1] f. Full red morocco, framed with gilt fillets and roulettes on the covers, arms stamped in gold in the center, spine with raised bands decorated with pieces of arms and gilt irons, gilt title on the spine, gilt roulette on the edges, gilt interior roulette, gilt edges (Contemporary binding).

Original edition .

Work illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Jacques Dumont le Romain (1700-1781), known for his historical and religious paintings.

Superb red morocco with the arms of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, I of the name (1725-1785), whose son, known under the name of Philippe Égalité, voted for the death of Louis XVI before being indicted and himself guillotined on November 6, 1793.

Like all the copies of the princes of Orleans, it bears witness to the lineage's predilection for the arts and literature.

"All of them, by taste or by policy, protected artists, men of letters and scholars. The collection of books that, from father to son, they had founded was second to none in the choice and rarity of the prints. Almost all the masters of typography, from its dawn to ours, were included in this library, erected with the care and science of a Benedictine."

Guigard, Armorial of the Bibliophile, 31.