with the common Sampson Low binding that was used for numerous Jules Verne titles
Lavishly illustrated with full colour photogarphic plates
People and Passions in Soccer
then comes details of 'fixed' and 'moveable' fairs up and down the country
Printed on hand-made paper with ornate floral borders and illuminated initial letters printed in red
Visites au Saint Sacrement et à la Sainte Vierge. Méditations pour l'Octave du St Sacrement; traits de feu et excercises de piété de S. Alphonse de Liguori - Prières pendant la Sainte Messe, Vêpres du Dimanche kashmir with the common Sampson LowTournai, Belgium: Socit S. Jean l'Evangliste, diteurs pontificaux Descle, Lefebvre & Cie, 1887. Stunning polished calf binding on a late 19th century book of sacraments, published in Tournai, with decorative gilt ornaments to front and back, heavily gilt spine divided into panels. Watered silk endpapers with wide decorative gilt turn ins. Text set within decorative wide borders; one illustration. All edges gold. A gorgeous example of the binder's art.
