Heures catholiques à l'usage des jeunes gens.

32mo, 5,9 x 4 cm : 160 pp.

Cont. vellum (sl. brown.), flat spine, spr. edges (binding warping, upper edge inkstained). Good copy.

Very rare devotional book for young people. Text inscribed in a double ruled border. From 1809 on the Lille bookseller Castiaux was associate with the printer Simon-François Blocquel. Ref. Not in Welsh, Bondy, Spielmann. Not in Bn-Opale plus. COPAC (? : "illustrated"). Joined: Petit paroissien de la jeunesse. Paris, Marcilly, (Eberhard printer), s.d. [c. 1820 ?], 64mo, 4,5 x 2,8 cm, [2]-94 pp. (inside somewhat used), publ. red paper (sl. discol., joints sl. rubbed), gilt tooled design on covers, gilt orn. flat back, a.e.g. Engr. orn. title and 5 plates. - [Same title]. Paris, Marcilly fils (Eberhard pr.), s.d. [c. 1840 ?], 64mo, 4,4 x 3 cm, [2]-94 pp. (title sl. brown.), similar binding, housed in a gilt orn. red paper cigar case, Good copy. Engr. title, frontisp. and 4 plates. Ex dono dated 1843 on inner cover. Two very small size children's books published in large numbers over quite a long period, often with the Marcilly imprint. Ref. Welsh 5606 (= Mikrobiblion 181). - Bondy p. 77. - Gumuchian 4130 (for the later copy). - Not in Spielmann. (3 vol.)