Lot 59
  • 59

Thomas a Kempis, Saint.

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • Opera... aucta, & diligentius recognita, suaque serie reposita. Paris: Jean Roigny, 1549
folio (310 x 205mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, eighteenth-century marbled calf, later morocco lettering-piece, red edges, extremities rubbed, covers slightly scraped

Provenance

James Ford, Grenada, inscription dated 5 April 1852; Bishop Phillpotts Library, Truro, presented by the Rev. James Ford, 1872, bookplate

Literature

Adams K15

Catalogue Note

The printer's device is that of Josse Badius Ascensius, who was Roigny's father-in-law.