kempis thomas valart joseph (3 résultats)

in contemporary red morocco, triple gilt filet to covers, flat spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco label lettered in gilt, polished blue endpapers, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of Ludovici des Champs des Tournelles, the booklabel of Gulielmi O?Brien, 1899 and the later Milltown Park Jesuit library shelf mark (?O?Brien bequest), ownership inscription of ?Benj. Harrison, d.d. R.P.? on the initial blank, dated ?1831? in a different hand, gilt edges. 12mo (152 x 84 mm), engraved frontispiece and pp. xii, 417, [3], with four further engraved plates by Longueil after Mariller, text browned in part, A delightful copy of a scarce edition printed by Barbou using Fournier?s typeface. A short note at the foot of the final page points this out for the less discerning reader: ?Ce Livre est imprimé avec les Caractères de M. Fournier le jeune? The text is accompanied by wonderful illustrations: an engraved frontispiece and four engraved plates after Mariller. Barbou printed numerous editions of this seminal text edited by Joseph Valart. The present edition includes an expanded version of Valart?s essay, ?Dissertation sur l?Auteur de l?Imitation? (pp. 385-417), which is not always included. Provenance: Louis Grégoire des Champs Destournelles (1744-1795), Jacobin politician, Minister of Finance during the French Revolution, imprisoned during the Reign of Terror. William O?Brien (1832-1899) was an Irish judge and avid bibliophile. He bequeathed his collection to the Jesuit College of Milltown Park in Dublin in 1899; it was dispersed in 2017. WorldCat lists copies in the Netherlands, in Solothurn in Switzerland, at Harvard and the University of North Texas only.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1766 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 293 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 293.

LeatherBound. Etat : NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1766 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 504.