Lamennais (abbot F. De) - Imitation Of Jesus Christ. Printed By Plon Et Morizot In 1855.

LAMENNAIS (Abbé F. de) - The imitation of Jesus Christ. Paris, Plon and Morizot, 1855; in-4, XVI - 570 pp., full red morocco binding, spine decorated with frames with 5 nerves, covers decorated with nets, frames and lace in the center of the first cover the initials DM struck, golden edges, interior lace, guard in red moiré fabric. New edition. New translation with reflections by Mgr G. Darboy archbishop of Paris. Inset illustrations on Overbeck steel, with frieze, text page surrounded by a frame in bistre colors by Rouargue, ornate initial letters. A frontispiece printed in gold and in color in chromolithography. The Imitation of Jesus Christ (in Latin "de imitatione Christi") is an anonymous work of Christian piety from the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century. It is currently estimated that its author is Thomas a Kempis. Very good state. The binding is unsigned, but she would have deserved it.