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$US 1650.00
Missæ Pro Defunctis.
Imprint: Turin, Augustae Taurinorum, 1889
Binding: Hardback
Folio (15 x 10 1/4 inches), full brown crushed morocco with a quarter-inch high-inch-wide curvilinear border decorated in gilt on both edges, on which are mounted (in the four corners) three-dimensional deaths heads atop crossed bones. Recessed in the large central field is a rough hewn cross covered in brown leather with the initials, INRI, in gilt on a swag at the top; draped on the cross itself is a white shroud covered in white leather. The rear board is almost completely covered by another quarter-inch high, gilt-trimmed raised panel, otherwise unadorned. Occasional foxing at the beginning and end of the text, the binding is in FINE CONDITION.This funeral mass in fifty numbered pages is printed throughout in black and red. It contains the traditional full-page wood engraving of the crucifixion and the musical notation for the mass. It can be safely inferred that this copy was bound for a person of some importance. Most unusual.
IN AN EXTRAORDINARY BINDING
Stock number:591.