1844 Le Nouvel Ange Conducteur (Besancon France) - The New Guardian Angel, or Collection of Prayers to Inspire Devotion
1844 Le Nouvel Ange Conducteur (Besancon France) - The New Guardian Angel, or Collection of Prayers to Inspire Devotion
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Light Brown Embossed Religious Book - Le Nouvel Ange Conducteur; Besancon; Billotte, Libraire 1844
"The New Guardian Angel, or Collection of Prayers to Inspire Devotion"
Publisher: Billotte, Libraire, Grande-Rue No 19 Besancon
1844
The New Guardian Angel was one of the most enduring French Catholic prayer compilations of the 19th century, often reprinted in various regional presses such as Besancon, Limoges, and Paris
Work served as a comprehensive personal prayer manual - spiritual companion containing morning and evening prayers, confessional guidance, litanies, and meditations for the sacraments
Original gilt and blind-stamped full calf leather in rich reddish brown hue
Boards are embossed with scrolling rococo foliage and a central cartouche framed by triple gilt fillts - decorative style transitional between late Restoration and early Second Republic French bindings
All gilt edges
Endpapers are marble paper in large stone pattern in red, grey and black
Title engraving: Frontispiece depicts Saint Louis, Roi de France kneeling before the crucifix - a powerful emblem of Christian kingship and piety
Billotte - a Besancon bookseller active in the 1H 19th C; Besancon was a notable center of Catholic publishing after the Napoleonic Concordat (1801), prodcuing devotional iterature aimed at lay faithful and clergy alike
Light Brown Embossed Religious Book - Le Nouvel Ange Conducteur; Besancon; Billotte, Libraire 1844
"The New Guardian Angel, or Collection of Prayers to Inspire Devotion"
Publisher: Billotte, Libraire, Grande-Rue No 19 Besancon
1844
The New Guardian Angel was one of the most enduring French Catholic prayer compilations of the 19th century, often reprinted in various regional presses such as Besancon, Limoges, and Paris
Work served as a comprehensive personal prayer manual - spiritual companion containing morning and evening prayers, confessional guidance, litanies, and meditations for the sacraments
Original gilt and blind-stamped full calf leather in rich reddish brown hue
Boards are embossed with scrolling rococo foliage and a central cartouche framed by triple gilt fillts - decorative style transitional between late Restoration and early Second Republic French bindings
All gilt edges
Endpapers are marble paper in large stone pattern in red, grey and black
Title engraving: Frontispiece depicts Saint Louis, Roi de France kneeling before the crucifix - a powerful emblem of Christian kingship and piety
Billotte - a Besancon bookseller active in the 1H 19th C; Besancon was a notable center of Catholic publishing after the Napoleonic Concordat (1801), prodcuing devotional iterature aimed at lay faithful and clergy alike