L'Office De La Semaine Sainte. [LITURGY].

THERESE BOCHOLTZ'S BOOK

L'Office De La Semaine Sainte, François Et Latin, Selon Le Missel Et Breviaire Romain. Avec Une Méditation pour chaque jour de la quinzaine; l'explication des Céremonies de l'Eglise; quelques Remarques sur l'Office; un Examen & des Priers pour la Confession & la Communion; le Portrait d'un véritable Chrétien, & une pratique de conformité à la Vie de Jesus-Christ. Traduction nouvelle.

Engraved frontispiece.

8vo. [165 x 100 x 36 mm]. [2]ff, 584pp. Contemporary binding of red goatskin, the covers with a gilt fillet border and small gilt flower in the corners. Smooth spine divided into seven panels by gilt fillets, lettered and dated in the second on a green goatskin label, the others tooled with a repeated wave roll, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with the gilt wave roll, dotted decorative endleaves, gilt edges with gauffering beside the headcaps and at the corners. (Slightly rubbed).

A Paris, & se vend à Liege: chez la Veuve J. Dessain, Imprimeur-Libraire, à la Bible d'or, près le Palais, 1779

A fine copy, The label is lettered "Therese Bocholtz", with the date 1783. Ownership marks such as these are rare. A Therese Gräfin Bocholtz-Meschede was born in 1772 at Hinnenburg in Westfalen.

Stock no. ebc9041