[THE BRAYTON IVES COPY ? FRENCH BINDING] Livre d'Eglise ? l'usage de ceux qui frequentent leur paroisse, contenant l'office des dimanches & des F?tes pour le Matin & l'Apr?s-Midi, selon le Nouveau Br?viaire et le nouveau Missel de Paris. Americana,Bindings,Book Arts and Design,France

Paris: Aux d?pens des libraires associ?s pour les Usages du Dioc?se, 1765. 12mo (17 ? 9.3 cm). Contemporary red crushed marocco (originally attributed to Nicolas-Denis Derome, but most likely by another contemporary French bookbinder), gilt-tooled with fleurons, fillets, dots, and other decorative elements; spine over five raised bands, compartments ruled in rillets, with dotted patterns and fleurons; dentelles; marbled endpapers; edges gilt; [12], 860 pp. Title with engraving of the coat of arms of the Archbishop of Paris. Bookplate of Brayton Ives to front pastedown, with the number corresponding to the entry in his 1891 auction catalog. Additional clipping from a later sale catalog affixed to ffep. Boards with light discoloration; lower two corners somewhat scuffed; occasional minor damp-staining and foxing throughout; overall about very good. 1765 edition of this bilingual Latin-French breviary, based on the new Paris Breviary. In addition to the readings for the entire liturgical year, the volume contains daily prayers, exercises in preparation for confession, the text of seven penitential psalms, and other prayers and meditations. At the beginning is a calendar of movable feasts for the years 1765?1803 and a calendar of feast days for 1765. In spite of the early attribution (in a clipping from an auctioneer's or bookseller's description tipped to first blank leaf, but also in the 1891 auction catalog of the Brayton Ives collection itself) to Nicolas-Denis Derome (French, 1731?1790), the binding is almost certainly not by Derome the Younger, but by another accomplished French binder of the period. A comparison of bindings and tools in Giles Barber's two volume catalog of the James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor (2013) leads to just one positively identified tool (PAL 65), a palette of birds and floral elements used on the spine, which is not associated with any specific binder. Other elements, especially the fleurons, are reminiscent of the work of the Deromes, Louis Douceur, and others, but all feature minor differences. This edition of the brevier itself is scarce, with KVK, OCLC not showing any copies as of October 2025.