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12mo (154 × 85 mm), pp. [12], 382, [2]. Woodcut frontispiece, title within typographical border. Contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers with contemporary heart-shaped green morocco label lettered in gilt: ‘J’appartiens a Mll. M. J. Briot. De Belfond. 1788’, gilt edges. Small later inscription ‘A.E.’ to initial blank and (in the same hand) ‘2.8.1930’ to final blank. Trace of small label (a bookseller or binder’s ticket?) front lower margin of front pastedown. Very slight wear to corners.

With a delightful contemporary heart-shaped ex libris belonging to a young girl (probably the bookplate of Marie Josephe Briot, later Bartoulot of Belfond, Franche-Comté), d. 1840) A rare Vesoul imprint of a popular prayer book first published in 1681 and reprinted widely into the nineteenth century. The printer Poirson is not listed in the Répertoire d’imprimeurs/libraires (which lists a single Vesoul printer, Jean-Claude Bogillot, 168.-1760) though the CCFr does list a handful of ephemeral Poirson imprints of the 1790s.