Author: Thomas à Kempis
Title: Of the Imitation of Christ. Four Books.
Description: London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, [1892]. Leather. A smartly bound, new edition of Thomas à Kempis' Christian devotional book, in a signed Hatchard's leather binding. New edition, direct from the original. Bound by Hatchard's in a half calf binding with cloth boards. A new edition of Thomas à Kempis' Christian devotional book, first composed in medieval Latin in the fifteenth century. This important devotional text is split into four books of detailed spiritual instruction: 'Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life', 'Directives for the Interior Life', 'On Interior Consolation' and 'On the Blessed Sacrament&apos. Written by Thomas à Kempis, a German-Dutch Catholic canon, best known for this particular work. With a bookplate and ink inscription of Oliver Stirling Lee. Bound by Hatchard's in a half calf binding with cloth boards. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and joints and a little fading to the spine. Front hinge is a touch strained before half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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