About the Book

Thomas à Kempis, Libri quatuor De imitatione Christi. Paris: Ex Typographia Fratris Regis natu proximi (Pierre-François Didot), 1788.

Printed under the direction of Petrus Franciscus Didot, junior.

174 leaves: [10], 338 pages.

Collation: [*]4(1+1) A-Z4 Aa-Tt4 Vv2

Notes: Single leaf with engraved plate on verso attached before title page; folios K2.3 wanting, substituted with duplicates of ff. Kk2.3 bound between K1 and K4 (thus, pp. 259-62 appear between pp. 74 and 79); final blank leaf Vv2 wanting.

Leaf dimensions: 33 x 25 cm

Width of Spine: 4 cm

Paper: Heavy wove paper, edges somewhat browned.

Binding: Sewn on seven stations; nineteenth-century binding to be removed and stored.

Engraving on f. [2] verso depicting the Christ Child as “Le Sauveur du Monde” (Savior of the World) with orb of the world and nail prefiguring the Crucifixion.
 

 

 

 

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