![]() ![]() Contemporary green morocco, smooth spine lettered in gilt, gilt decoration to spine and covers, turn-ins richly tooled in gilt, red silk doublures and free endpapers, edges gilt and marbled, yellow, red, and green silk bookmarker.įrontispiece and 3 plates, text printed in red and black throughout within floral border. I knew almost all the chapters by heart" (Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux). "This little book never left me, in summer in my pocket, in winter in my sleeve. Mainly composed of aphorisms and maxims advocating humility, resignation and abnegation, this work is perhaps the most widely read Christian devotional work after the Bible. This is a beautifully illustrated early 20th-century reprint of Félicité Robert de La Mennais's popular translation, originally published in 1824.įrench Catholic priest and philosopher De La Mennais (1782-1854) was one of France's most important intellectuals during the Bourbon Restoration, and a pioneer of liberal and social Catholicism. An attractively bound copy of Thomas à Kempis's classic devotional in French translation. ![]()
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