Bidspirit auction | Friderici Pustet

Friderici Pustet - Horae Diurnae Breviarii Romani - Friderici Pustet, 1892. Published in 1893 by the prestigious liturgical printing house of Tournai (Tornaci), Belgium, by Desclée, Lefebvre et Soc. (publishers of the Society of St. John the Evangelist), this ”Editio Tornacensis altera post typicam” is a beautiful and meticulously crafted book of official liturgical prayers of the Catholic Church, printed in two colors (black with red rubrics). The volume has 243.51 pages. The copy is bound in a superb period full dark leather binding, displaying elaborate and profound religious ornamental motifs blind-embossed on the front and back covers, highlighting a Gothic geometric border and a central Christological monogram. The spine, with false raised bands, exhibits exquisite toolwork and gold-embossed titles, and the page edges are entirely carmine (dyed red). The overall state of preservation is very good, with the structure perfectly firm and the interior clean and well preserved, establishing itself as a nineteenth-century liturgical piece of remarkable aesthetic and collectible appeal.