St. Bernard Thoughts & Meditations 1878 French decorative leather book

(Old Books, 19th Century Books, Leather Books, French Books, Religion, Christianity, St. Bernard, Philosophy).

Pensees et Meditations, by St. Bernard.
Published 1878, Paris by Victor Palme.
443 pages. Text in French.

Attractive antiquarian 1/4 leather binding, smooth spine, gilt title lettering & pictorial spine decorations, marbled covers & end papers.

Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. 

Binding gently age worn but still appealing, leather and joints slightly rubbed but still supple, remains overall very attractive as an object.

Text block paper is well heavily uniformly age toned as typical due to paper stock used, rear portion of text block displays some prominent old damp staining in the top edge, internally book remains mostly clean, tight and sound. A book which has been taken care of but may/ does not look like new.

Still attractive on the shelf. Book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in rather nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws seem easy to overlook or forgive. 

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Book Measures c. 6 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W.

[B6807].