The Office Of Holy Week For The Use Of The King's House - Jacques Collombat, Paris 1727

The Office of Holy Week, for the use of the King's Household. Printed by express Command of His Majesty. In accordance with the Breviaries & Messels Roman & Parisian. With the Ceremonies of the Church. New Edition. In Paris, From the Printing Office of Jacques Collombat, Ordinary Printer to the King, Cabinet, House & Buildings of His Majesty; rue S. Jacques, at Pelican. 1727 ----- Large octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), 11 ff. + 616 pp. + 1 f., burgundy morocco binding gilded with small irons, wide framing roulette decorated with alternating palmettes and fleurs-de-lis; covers stamped with the great arms of Louis XV; spine with 5 raised bands with title and boxes decorated with fleurs-de-lis; marbled paper endpapers; all edges gilded (contemporary binding). Text enriched with 6 intaglio engravings: Title-frontispiece, Ordinary of the Mass, Office of Palm Sunday, Office of Holy Thursday, Office of Holy Friday, Office of Easter Sunday. ----- In good house condition. Binding rubbed, wear to the corners, the title-frontispiece detached. Under the engravings, handwritten translation in French, in ink (18th century writing).