Eucologe ou Livre d'église, qui contient l'office du matin et du soir, pour les dimanches & les fêtes de l'année. Imprimé par ordre de monseigneur l'archevesque.

12mo: [24]-824-lxxxvii-[1]-64 pp. (some foxing, last 8 lvs brown.).

Contemp. dentelle binding: red morocco, boards richly decorated with gilt fillets and floral roll frame, floral ornaments composed by gilt tools with green wax mosaic decoration, gilt-tooled spine with raised bands, green leather label, inside roll, a.e.g. (sl. rubbed corners, cuts and turn-ins, sl. cracked spine with microscopic holes in the lower part).

Nice copy of this Missal for the use of the Paris diocese. Coat of arms of the Archbishop of Paris on the title page. It contains a calendar, prayers and hymns for Sundays and Catholic feasts. Main part of the text printed in two columns with the Latin text and the French translation. Prov. Jean de Brouwer (1872-1951), Belgian industrialist and patron, created a Baron by King Leopold III (armorial bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].