Luis de Granada, [Seconde partie du memorial de la vie chrestienne], brown morocco for a member of Henri III's order of penitents

Volume 2 (only, or part thereof), 12mo (119 x 77 mm). Roman and italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a2-8 b-z⁸ A-T⁸ (T6-8 blank): 335 leaves (only, of 336, lacking title-page on a1). Woodcut initials and printer's ornaments, ruled in red throughout. (Lacking title-page, 1/2 inch paper flaw on i4, some marginal dampstaining to final gathering.)

binding: Contemporary Parisian brown morocco for a member of Henri III's Order of Penitents (126 x 82 mm), tooled in silver, 3 fillets round sides, 2 open half-quadrilobed compartments at sides, open quadrelobe compartments above and below central oval containing crucifixion, flat spine silvered with 3 line title at head, motto flanked by fleurs-de-lys at tail, in centre architectonic cartouche with skull at top, fleur-de-lys at bottom and royal arms in centre, edges silvered. (Silver tooling now oxidised, upper joint starting, extremities slightly rubbed.)

provenance: Binding with royal arms and motto of Henri III, King of France (1574-1589) for a member of the Order of Penitents—Richard Penard y Fernández, armorial bookplate and crowned monogram stamp, with his violet inkstamp to front free endpaper, his sale, Étienne Ader & Claude Guérin with Lucien Lefèvre, Paris, 13-14 December 1960, lot 72. acquisition: Purchased in 1991 from Rossignol, Paris. references: cf. Fabienne Le Bars, "Les reliures de Henri III" in Henri III mécène: des arts, des sciences et des lettres (Paris 2006), pp. 227-247 (pp. 244-245, on three other texts by Luis de Granada in his library)