£60
Kempis (Thomas à), Dassance (l'abbé, editor & translator), Johannot (Tony, illustrator) & Cavelier (Adrien-Louis-Marie, illustrator), L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, Paris: I. Curmer, Éditeur, 1836, French text, half-title, additional lithographed pictorial title-page 'illuminated' in polychrome watercolour, black-ruled letterpress title, the text printed in medieval style lithographed borders, full-page engraved plates, finely bound in contemporary purple straight-grained morocco by Brissart, signed, graduating gilt double-fillet borders rolled with anthemia and bellhusks, quatrefoil corner bosses, five-compartment spine of slightly raised bands, lettered in the second, all edges gilt, gilt line turn-in and foliate rolled dentelles, marbled endpapers, slight shelf wear and the slightest of sunning, first spine compartment with a singular hole, 8vo (25.8 x 17.4cm); an earlier Latin edition, De Imitatione Christi, [Paris]: Jean Barbou, 1758, lacking title-page (i.e. a1), otherwise apparently complete, finely bound in contemporary Parisian red morocco gilt,all edges gilt, olive morocco doublures, marbled and gilt endpapers, 12mo (16.3 x 10cm), (2)
Provenance: 2nd: 1) reputedly James Thomson Gibson-Craig WS, FRSE (1799-1886), Scottish bibliophile; pencil inscription to ffep; both: 2) William O'Brien (1832-1899), Irish judge and noted bibliophile; his 1899 book and bequest labels to; 3) Milltown Park, Society of Jesus, Library, Dublin, their bookplates, labels and/or stamps, O'BRIEN BEQUEST, C4/K3; 4) sold by Sotheby's, The Library Of William O’Brien: Property Of The Milltown Park Charitable Trust, 7th June, 2017, lot 351 (2 of 26).
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