[Book of Devotion] VARIOUS PRAYERS. No place, no date (ca....

[Book of Devotion] VARIOUS PRAYERS. No place, no date (ca. 1870). An 8vo volume, deeply mottled red with age, ribbed spine decorated with gilded panels, covers framed with gilded fillets and adorned with a rich floral design in gold and blind-stamped, all edges gilt. Unpaginated (153 folios mounted on tabs). Scattered foxing on the verso of the folios.

A prayer book with wide margins, entirely chromolithographed in the style of illuminated Renaissance manuscripts. Each page features the text in Gothic type within rich polychrome frames adorned with foliage, flowers, fruits, interlacing patterns, and geometric motifs.