Jésus-Christ.

£125 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A very fine copy of Louis Veuillot's spiritual biography of Christ, containing numerous full-page colour illustrations borrowed from the monuments of Christian art. Written in response to Ernest Ranan's rationalisation of the Life of Jesus, Veuillot's masterpiece presents an impassioned, orthodox defence of Christ's divinity. Alongside this, the volume also contains a supplementary study on Christian art by E. Cartier. 4to (29 x 20.5); 180 engravings and 16 chromolithographs with illustrated frontispiece in colour,tissue guards, light spotting throughout, otherwise clean internally; panelled brown morocco with gilt fillet borders enclosing elaborate gilt tooling, spine elaborately gilt in six compartments, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, expected signs of wear to extremities, both boards slightly scratched, a very handsome copy; 572 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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