MARTIN (Arthur). La Vie et les Mystères de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie, Mère de Dieu. Paris, Henri Charpentier, 1859. In-folio, fine edition almost entirely chromolithographed, illustrated with a frontispiece, 3 unnumbered plates and 62 plates numbered I to XXXI and Ibis to XXXIbis. The text in black and red Gothic letters, decorated with frames and miniatures inspired by medieval painted manuscripts, printed in bright colors and gilded by Kellerhoven, Gsell, Ciappori and Ledoux at Lemercier. All mounted on tabs. Bound in publisher's full red chagrin, the boards decorated with a gilded virgin in a mandorla within a leafy frame, framed by four angels and fleurons in the spandrels, spine decorated with 4 nerves. (foxing to tissue paper, some creased, binding rubbed, one corner worn). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio