[Maltese cross] Catechisme, recueil de prieres et de cantiques à l'usage des sauvages d'Albany, (Baie-d'Hudson.) ... [3 lines in Cree; oblate seal]
A Cree-language Catholic prayer and hymn book compiled by Jean Nicolas Laverlochère, printed in Montréal in 1854 for Indigenous readers at Albany on Hudson Bay. Its pictures are small woodcut-style devices: a flourished scroll rule, a bordered vignette of a lamb with a cross and halo, and a banner inscribed with French devotional text, offering a designer examples of ornamental borders, dividers and text cartouches.
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