Litaniae Omnium Sanctorum cum selectis aliquot Hymnis & Orationibus
Publisher: Plantin Press, Antwerp, 1621 (Baltasar Moretum, Johannes Moreti, Io. Meruiseum)
Binder: [Le Gascon]
Date: 1621
Dimensions:
Book: 6 3/8 × 3 7/8 × 1 1/4 in. (162 × 98 × 31mm)
Page: 6 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (159 × 95mm)
Medium: original prints: engraved vignette on title page, frontispiece
text: letterpress in black with red
paper: cream laid paper
Place of Origin: Paris, France
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1920.39
Label Text:"Fanfare" is an elaborate style of decoration consisting of interlaced bands enclosing geometrical compartments filled with leafy spirals (here done by a system of solid lines and tiny dots). Elsewhere on the binding, one can note the fleur-de-lys emblem, the crowned "L" and Louis XIII royal coat of arms in the center. This is a brilliant achievement in book binding. Later, this prayer book was in a distinguished library of Robert Hoe, whose forebears invented the rotary printing press (widely used for printing newspapers until recently).
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