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Missale Romanum. London: Dulau; Vienna: H. Reiss; Paris: A.W. Schulgen, 1861.
2o (425 x 293 mm). Printed in red and black. Frontispiece, illustrations in text, large initials. (Wax damage to pages 180-220.) A VERY ELABORATED MOLDED BINDING, the covers and spine of a molded material simulating calf, each cover divided into nine compartments, the central compartment with a brass plate showing the lamb of God surrounded by fruits and flowers, with the four evangelists in the background, the other compartments with a molded pattern of leaves, the back cover of similar design with different coloration, gilt-metal corner pieces and bosses of stamped fruits and flowers, brass clasps and catches with leather thongs, spine covered with elaborately molded design, six vellum book dividers with gilt leather terminals, decorated paper endleaves, calf turn-ins gilt, edges gilt and gauffred, by August Habenicht of Vienna, with his morocco ticket on front pastedown. Provenance: E. Crashaw (bookplate); purchased from the Chiswick Book Shop, 4 June 1959.
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