Romanian Orthodox Church. A prayer-book, n.d. [early-mid 19t...

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£100 - £150

Romanian Orthodox Church. A prayer-book, n.d. [early-mid 19th c], Old Church Slavonic printed in Romanian Cyrillic, lacking general title-page, A* first leaf with decorative header and historiated initial of Jesus Christ, pp: 268, [2], the first two leaves detached, signature 12 with a chipped fore-edge affecting a few letters, but apparently not sense, the lower-margins unevenly trimmed in places, though never affecting or even close to text, some occasional off-setting from later occasional MS annotation, the whole with varying degrees of toning in places, some margins slightly soiled from handling, original publisher's cloth over papered boards, split, 8vo in 4s, a later devotional, dated 1856, disbound, stained, 8vo, (2)