Bindings.- Officio della B. Vergine Maria dedicato a S. Anna, some spotting, marginal browning and finger soiling, engraved title vignette, 8 engraved plates, silk endpapers, contemporary red morocco, covers gilt with centre-piece composed of floral and foliate tools, surrounded by multiple borders of repeated decorative tools, mostly floral or foliate, spine gilt in compartments with central thistle-like device, lightly rubbed, Roma, Gio. Maria Salvioni, 1707 § Breviarium Rotomagense, engraved frontispiece, printed in red and black throughout, contemporary red morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide variegated borders surrounding central void, these incorporating pointillé, leafy shapes and floral tools, spine compartment similarly gilt and with double spine labels, joints slightly rubbed, Rotomagi, Jore Patrem, 1736 § L’Office de le Semaine Sainte, half-title, occasional sports or stains, contemporary French royal armorial binding, draw-tool borders enclosing intricate strapwork with delicate tooling inside compartments, central arms largely erased (that of upper cover completely, the lower just perceptible), spine similarly gilt, repairs to joints, pastedowns and endpapers in silk, Jean Baptiste Garnier, Paris, 1752; and another similar in contemporary red binding, 8vo et infra (4)

⁂ It is possible the royal arms of the L’Office de la Semaine Sainte, are those of the then Dauphine of France, Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731-67), the wife of Dauphin Louis (1729-65), son of Louis XV. The symbol of the dolphin is just perceptible on the left-hand shield on the lower cover.