[Book bindings] Lot with 4 old French prayer books

[Book bindings] Lot with 4 old French prayer books - Paris / Tours / Mechelen / [etc.] - Ad Mame & Cie. / H. Dessain / [etc.] - 1861/1904 - 1st edition - Leather bindings - ca 9 x 13 cm.

Condition: Good set - some wear, attractive as a whole.

Collection of four small format antiquarian religious publications from France / Belgium; hardcover editions in fine leather bindings with gilt decoration/title on the spine, endpapers of decorative paper, dentelles, gilt-edge, etc. Illustrated with devotional prints, (chromolithographs, steel engravings). Text in French and Latin.

Contains : 1. Les plus belles prières de Saint Alphonse de Liguori [...], Paris/Leipzig/Tournai, Casterman, 1904; 2. Nouveau formulaire de prières dédié aux enfants de Marie, Anvers, Spitaels, 30ème édition, [ca 1880]; 3. Manuel du chrétien [...], Tours, Ad Mame et Cie., 1861; 4. Horae Diurnae Brevarii Monastici [...] Benedicti, Mechliniae, H. Dessain, 1882.