Antique Romantic French 19c Papier Cartonnage Book Dec Binding Le Chapelet De Premiere Communion by Barbier Megard offers Rouen 1877 Child Rosary

Antique French 19th century Papier Cartonnage Book Le Chapelet De Premiere Communion Par C. Barbier. Megard et Cie, Rouen 1877. 119 pp.

The subject appears to be a First Communion Rosary.

Ceam colored background embossed with a gold and salmon red Paper Cartonnage Romantique binding covers, with front offers cover cutout window frame and chromolithograph print with three figures - at the left a standing man, in the center a priest and and a kneeling child at the right; sweet engraved frontispiece.

In French.

Measures: 8” X 5 1/4".

Used "As is" condition; light cover wear; extremities rubbed and some loss of paper; slight fading of spine strip; head and tail of spine bumped and little loss of paper; corner tips bumped and frayed; front pastedown some scraping away of paper; front free-endpaper lacking and slight roughness at hinge where removed; some roughness to some page edges and page 9/10 lower corner lacking; pp. 11 - 16 partially detached.

Very decorative and collectible example of 19th century ornate decorative paper binding from France. Related to the History of French Children Religious Literature and Education, a First Communion and a Rosary.