Lx.1.08
[Imitatio Christi. English]
Of the imitation of Christ : three, both for wisedome, & godlines, most excellent bookes / made 170 yeeres since by one Thomas of Kempis, & for the worthines thereof oft since translated out of Latine into sundrie languages by diuers godlie and learned men ; now newly corrected, translated, and with most ample textes, and sentences of holie scripture illustrated by Thomas Rogers MDLXXX.
London : Published by the Essex House Press, 16a Brook Street, Bond Street, London, W, MDCCCCIIII [1904].
[2], 216p ; 30cm.
Edited by Ernest Godman.
Translations of the first three books by Thomas Rogers and the final book by Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond.
Title-page woodcut designed by C. R. Ashbee and cut by Alec Miller.
Printed under C. R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press.
Horizontal chain lines ; watermarked ; deckled edges ; leaves unopened.
Original limp brown calf binding, with brown silk ties and gilt lettering on spine.
ECL copy: No. 40 of 110 copies, being one of 100 on paper.
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Ms. inscription: "Librum hunc E. L. Vaughan, dim college, nuper adiutori strenno forti fideli in memoriam iampridem incohata in spem mansura amicitia d.d. E. L., 1d. Oct. MCMXIII".
Ashbee, C. R., 1863 - 1942 (Charles Robert) printer.
Godman, Ernest ed.
Beaufort, Margaret, 1443 - 1509 Countess of Richmond and Derby, tr.
Miller, Alec, b. 1879 - ? woodcutter.
Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton) (Edward Littleton) former owner.
England London.
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