Bindings. [Kempis (Thomas à)], L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, ...

Hammer

£170

Bindings. [Kempis (Thomas à)], L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction inédite du XVIIₑ siècle [...], first edition thus, ?large paper copy, Paris: Adrien Le Clere & Co., Editeurs, 1869, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, divisional titles and pictorial colophon leaf, each book with engraved frontispieces, finely bound by Gruel in Renaissance Revival red morocco, signed, the covers blocked in bind with a border of humanists' profiles in laurel wreaths, centred by rectangular reserve of fleur-de-lis and further foliage, outlined with rolled gilt knots and blind-ruled fillets, six-compartment spine with raised bands, lettered in the second, the sixth with a coronet over WM monogram and binder's signature, the upper-cover with 4.6cm l vertical joint split affecting the first-compartment only, otherwise the lightest of shelf wear, gilt fillet turn-in, foliate rolled dentelles, medieval style gold and purple Gruel  endpapers, incorporating Gruel Relieur, all edges gilt, 8vo, Vogüé (Eugène-Melchior de) & Burnard (Eugène, illustrator), Les Paraboles, Nancy-Paris-Stasbourg: Berger-Levrault, Éditeurs, 1908, contemporary red three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo, [&] Flaubert's Salammbô, Paris, 1905, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 12mo, (3) 
Provenance: 2nd: Ex Libris Alfred et Blanche de Curzon.