Rare'PLANTIJN' miniature prayerbook 1716, with fine engravings & copper locks

  

Old & rare, small size, prayer book, Missal, from the famous Plantin's printing house in Antwerp, with beautiful engravings and original copper locks. OFFICIUM HEBDOMAE SANCTAE, secundium Missale & Breviarium Romanum - Antwerp, Ex Typographiae Plantiniana, 1716 - leather binding with copper clasps - 480 pp - 11 x 6.5 cm - illustrated with very beautiful engravings, vignettes and initials. Some pages are a bit loosening, but everything is still tight and compact together. The engravings are from excellent quality, very fine, sharp and powerful print.

The well known style of this famous printing house is recognizable throughout the whole prayerbook, lovely vignettes and miniature initials and the red & black letter type. Very handsome prayerbook in miniature size.