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Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace de Notre Seigneur M. DCC. LIII. …
Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].
24mo, pp. [96]; woodcut illustrations of coins to 12 pp.; a few leaves closely cut at outer margin, occasionally affecting a few characters, quire B loose; in a contemporary embroidered binding of raised work in silver thread on a silk background over canvas, each board with a central floral vignette in coloured threads; rather worn at extremities, embroidery to spine perished, silver thread largely tarnished, upper board a little darkened, but a charming piece; nineteenth-century ink stamp of D. Cloz to front free endpaper.
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Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace de Notre Seigneur M. DCC. LIII. …
A charming almanack for 1753 printed in Liège by Everard Kints – bookseller, printer, and wine merchant – here in a delightful embroidered binding with raised work in silver thread surrounding a skilfully executed floral arrangement.
The printer advertises – as well as Missals, breviaries, history books, English wax, and Holland paper – champagne and ‘excellent’ Languedoc and Burgundy wines, with a refund of 3 sous to anyone who returns the bottle afterwards.
OCLC and CCFr find no copies of this edition, and only scattered holdings for other years.
