Author: LUIS de Granada.
Title: Obras del Venerable P. M. Fr. Luis de Granada del Orden de Santo Domingo. Repartidas en tres tomos. Lo que cada uno contiene se vera en la segunda hoja. Tomo primero. Segun la ultima correccion, y adiciones hechas por le mismo Venerable Padre Maestro. Ponese su vida sumariamente escrita por el M.R. P. Fray Iuan de Mariera . . . Al fin de este libro se pone un resumen de los que ha impresso Gabriel de Leon.
Description: Madrid: en la Imprenta de Andrès Garcia de la Iglesia, a costa de Gabriel de Leon, 1676. Fol. 52, [6], 998, [76]p. Text in double columns. Title in red and black. Woodcut printer's device on title and on penultimate page. Colophon on final page. Early provenance inscriptions on final page: 'Soy de Joseph Garcia', and on half title "Soy de mi Dueno". Modern marbled boards (corners slightly worn), calf-backed, new end papers; pale green-edged leaves. ***** This, the first of three volumes of the collected writings of the Dominican preacher Luis de Granada (1504-88), contains the Guía de peccadores, Libro de la oración y meditación, Memorial de la vida cristiana, with Adiciones à el dicho Memorial. "Granada's books have still an immense vogue. His sincerity, learning and fervor are admirable, and his forty years spent between confessional and pulpit gave him a rare knowledge of human weakness and a mastery of eloquent appeal" (Fitzmaurice-Kelly). Palau 107327. This edition not in Goldsmith or Penney.

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