Author: aKEMPIS (Thomas):
Title: De Imitatione Christi De Libri Quator.
Description: [Paris] Impressium Parisiis Cura Edwini Tross 1858. FIRST EDITION. 24mo, 80 x 45 mms., pp. [iv], 155 [156 blank], uncut, engraved frontispiece, attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf (with his tiny gilt mark just barely visible in the lower gilt margin of the verso of the front board) in later full tan morocco, triple gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, with title in gilt on spine, marbled end-papers, with the miniature bookplate of M. A. Elton on the front paste-down end-paper. A fine copy of this "large-paper" miniature. Doris V. Welsh, Bibliography of Miniature Books, no. 4976; Spielmann, P.E. Miniature books, no. 479. Elton, Mary Augusta Strachey, 1838-1914: A catalogue of a portion of the library of Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton. (London, Quaritch, 1891), also by Charles Isaac Elton.

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