Le tableau de la Croix representé dans les ceremonies de la ste Messe
Subtitle: ensemble le tresor de la deuotion aux soufrances de N.re S.I.C.
By: le tout enrichi de belles figures
Publisher: Chez F. Mazot ...
Published: 1653
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Stations of the Cross
Notes: All engraved.

This edition differs from that issued in 1652, both in the exclusion and inclusion of plates and in the fact that many of the plates have been reworked and elaborated; the heads of the officiating priest in plates depicting the Mass have been altered to form a series of portraits.

Colophon dated 1653.

Includes a full-page dedication portrait of Charles d'Aubespine, Marquis de Châteauneuf (1580-1653), by Guillaume de Gheyn, & the engraved dedication and preface detail the scope of the work. Includes engravings by I. Durant and J. Collin.

Duportal, J. Livres à figures du XVIIème siècle, p. 244-245

Bequest; John Harvey Treat; 1908?; C 9491.405.4.

Contemporary ms. notes in two different unknown hands on front pastedown; one note mentions the engraver Guillaume Perrier as having executed work for the publisher F. Mazot in 1651.

Date in colophon probably altered from 1652.

Imperfect: the plates concerning the mystery of the Mass consist only of nos. 9-34; some plates nos. have been erased, causing some perforations in the paper; verso sides of title and dedication leaves have been pasted together for reinforcement.

Bound in contemporary morocco, blind and gilt-tooled, spine title gilt, edges stained yellow.