Les Heures de la Cour, contenant la Ste. Messe, les Vêpres et l’Office des grandes fêtes en français et en latin en gros caractères ornées de 4 jolies figures

Paris : chez Saintin, libraire, rue de Bussy, no. 15, au premier, [c.1805]. Duodecimo (133 x 82 mm), contemporary red straight-grained morocco decorated in gilt (boards lightly marked; corners worn; spine ends softened; some wear along the outer hinges); all edges gilt; marbled endpapers, two separate title-pages (both bearing the same imprint), one with vignette portrait of the Virgin Mary after Mignard and the other with dedication to Madame de La Rochefoucault; pp. [6 blank], [8], 300, [2], [8 blank]; illustrated with 4 engraved plates; text in French and Latin; front hinge cracked, off-setting to edges of pastedowns and endpapers, contents with scattered foxing and occasional browning.

An attractive French Catholic devotional book that was clearly designed to appeal to young women. It was probably published not long after Madame de La Rochefoucauld was appointed to the high-ranking position of dame d’honneur to the empress Josephine, in 1804.