[Rarebooks] FS: Very fine & rare embroidered binding on a Neapolitan Missale. 1772

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(CATHOLIC CHURCH. LITURGY & RITUAL. MISSAL) MISSALE ROMANUM Decreto 
Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini. Restitutum S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi, Jussu Editum 
Clementis VIII. & Urbani VIII... Naples: Ex Typographia Simoniana. 1772. Folio 
(15-3/4” tall). 2 parts in 1. xxxii,430;cxii pp. Mostly double column text. 
Title within an ornamental type border and with a large engraved vignette. Title 
& text printed throughout in red & black. Printed music in a number of 
sections. Illustrated with 3 full-page copper engravings by Carlo Nolli, a 
Neapolitan engraver. Contemporary embroidered binding in full blue/green velvet with 
gold & silver thread ornamental designs along each border and with the large 
embroidered arms of a Bishop in the center of both covers. The spine is ornately 
sewn as well. There are 4 ornamental flowers sewn on each cover with actual 
strips of gold foil. Four brass “legs” (modern) on each cover. Marbled 
endpapers. A.e.g. Text with 5 fore-edge tabs. An exceptional embroidered binding of 
very high quality.     $4,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first printing of a very rare Neapolitan MISSALE. No copy is recorded by 
OCLC, only a 1775 reprint. Embroidered bindings in folio format are quite 
uncommon, requiring a great amount of time (and expense) to produce.

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