[Title in Swedish]: Psalter

Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer, 1791 An extremely attractive and very unusual binding (BINDING) 2 volumes bound in one vols., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece, title page vignettes, illustration and headpieces. Contemporary sheep, elaborately blind- and gilt-stamped. Spine in four compartments with raised bands, oval-and-cross tooling surrounding bands, upper and lower covers stamped with a triangle-and rule border. At the top, two angels float in the air carrying a crown with two crossed palm branches. Below them are two hearts, side-by-side, one containing a serpent (Satan) draped over a cross, the other with the crucified Jesus. Below the hearts is a banner, framing the naked Adam and Eve on either side of a tree, around which is wound the serpent. At the base of the tree is a skull, and at either side of Adam and Eve are a deer and a lion. At the bottom of each cover is a scroll-and-vine ornament. At the fore-edge are two leather and iron clasps, the clasps in the forms of angels playing trumpets. Edges tinted pale green and tooled. Portions of tooling originally gilded, but now slightly worn

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