BAILLET, Adrien. Les Vies des saints, composées sur ce qui n - Lot 122

BAILLET, Adrien. Les Vies des saints, composées sur ce qui nous est resté de plus authentique, & de plus assuré dans leur Histoire, disposées selon l'ordre des calendriers. Interesting complete set of this work, put on the Index by the Church in 1707. Paris, Veuve Roulland, 1724. 4 volumes in-4, full brown calf, ribbed spines with morocco title-pieces, gilded floral and filigree decorations, gilded roulette at the edges, red edges. Approx. 900 pages per volume; 13 engraved headbands. Bindings overall rubbed, headbands damaged, some jaws split, boards and spines with leather tears, corners dull, upper right-hand corner of volumes 2 and 4 chipped and stained, rare foxing. New edition of this collection of saints' lives arranged by order of appearance in the calendar. The text is printed on two numbered columns. The fourth volume includes a history of the movable feasts, a life of the Old Testament saints, a chronology and a "topography" of the saints. The engraved headbands are by Thomassin. A good set.