IV Livres de L'imitation De Jesus-Christ Qu'aucuns Attribuent a Iessen a'autres a Gerson, & d'autres a Thomas, a Kempis, Fidelement Traduits

by Henri Léon Curmer, publisher

$2,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary half dark blue morocco and blue cloth, spines with raised bands forming six comparments, spines tooled and lettered gilt, all edges gilt. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Within custom protective cloth dust jackets and slipcases A celebrated and sumptuous production, often cited as a masterwork of chromolithographic printing and a landmark achievement in nineteenth-century French publishing. Together with the rare Appendix. A spectacular example of 19th-century

• Binding: Leather

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