IMITATION DE JESUS-CHRIST

by Thomas à. Kempis, Henri-Victor Michelant

$1,250 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, circa 1883 . Lavish large-format chromolithograph production, with facsimiles exceptional designs from illuminated medieval manuscripts, redesigned around the text of Kempis's epochal work. Fine. Item #55787 Originally issued in 24 parts, this extravagant Belle Époque production gathered examples of the finest known illuminated manuscripts, then adopted and adapted them into this wholly

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