Hours, French & Latin. Catholic Church. Heures en Françoys & Latin à l'usaige de Romme, rare

Hours, French & Latin. Catholic Church. Heures en Françoys & Latin à l'usaige de Romme, 3 parts in 1, collation: A B8 C-V8 aa-dd8 AA BB8, printed in red and black, Roman letter, title with woodcut printer's device, 16 fine large woodcut illustrations by Pierre Vase [Eskrich] (signed 'PV'), these and text within ornate woodcut borders of various designs (some signed 'PV'), title with a few small chips / holes to inner and lower margin and with ink inscriptions (one obliterated), some water-staining, mostly prevalent to lower corners at end of Hours and first half of Vespers, trimmed in places, affecting the odd border, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later endpapers, late 18th or early 19th century calf, spine in compartments and with later gilt title within single filet border to one compartment, one upper corner and small part of a lower edge worn, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (179 x 113mm.), Lyon, [Macé Bonhomme for] Guillaume Rouillé, 1549.*** Rare edition of this handsomely illustrated and printed Hours. This seemingly the only copy to have been offered at auction. The second and third parts are the Vespers for the week and 'The Doctrine of Christians' from the OT & NT. Vase and Rouillé work closely together on a number of projects, of which our Hours is one of the earliest (the first being an Hours of the previous year shared with Bonhomme). Provenance: 'Berbisey', likely the important Dijon family (early ink inscription to title); 'M. Brocard'; 'Cat. Ins[criptus] 1722' (ink inscriptions to title). The Berbisey-Brocard families were linked through the marriage of Antoine Brocard (accountant of Dijon) and Marguerite Berbisey. Literature: Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, X, pp. 216-217; Lacombe, 509.