[Le Masson] - Statuts des Moniales Chartreuses - 1690

Very rare first French edition of the Carthusian Statutes translated from Latin by Innocent Le Masson (1627–1703), Superior General of the Grande Chartreuse at La Correrie from 1675. He took the initiative in 1680 to install printing presses there, and from 1690 to 1695 Claude Faure, a printer from Grenoble, worked there. From the presses at La Correrie came forty-eight editions of Carthusian liturgical books.
Cf. Deschamps, 366-367; Magnien, Bibliographie des ouvrages des presses de La Correrie (Bulletin du bibliophile, Paris, 1896), no. 18; Hubert Élie, Les Éditions des Statuts de l'ordre des Chartreux, 1943, p. 139.

[Innocent Le Masson], Statutes of the Carthusian nuns drawn from the statutes of the Order and from some ordinances of the General Chapters. Divide into two parts, La Correrie, at Claude Faure, 1690.

PP.: (X), 343, (V). COMPLETE.

Specimen with cards in overall good condition, with the usual signs of use and time and old reinforcements along the inner margins of some cards. Corrections in ink on pp. 332/333.

Modern half-leather binding with a manuscript title on the spine, very well preserved. White endpapers. Red edges.