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DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.
Of the imitation of Christ, translated from the Latin original ascribed to Thomas A Kempis with an introduction and notes by the Rev'd Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Apart from the Bible, no book has been translated into more languages than the Imitation of Christ. The text is divided into four books, which provide detailed spiritual instructions: "Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life," "Directives for the Interior Life," "On Interior Consolation," and "On the Blessed Sacrament."
- Published
- London: William Pickering & John Major, 1828.
- References
- Jackson 70; Windle; Pippin A53a.
- Plates
- 16
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: William Pickering & John Major, 1828.
- Ref
- 221
First Dibdin edition limited to 750 copies, this one of 50 on large paper; large 8vo pp. [2] xxii [4] xxv-clvii 389 [1]; engraved frontispiece and five engravings on India paper in the text; bound without the half-title in full brown morocco by Matthews; gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments; lettered in gilt; 2 triple gilt borders on boards with corner ornaments; top edge gilt; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endpapers; joints a little rubbed; the front free flyleaf loosening but generally very good. This copy is extra-illustrated with 20 inserted illustrations, a number being hand-coloured albumen photographs of artwork and engravings together with one other folding plate. Coloured plates in order: 1. Head of Christ. 2. Mother of pain. 3. Bust of the Madonna Sixtina. 4. Madonna in the Chair. 5. Christ. 6. A reading hermit. 7. The penitent Magdalen. 8. The holy night. 9. Saint Cecily. 10. Christ is bearing the cross. 11. The penitent Magdalen. 12. Ecce homo. 13. The hermit. 14. Madonna. 15. The angels. 16. Bust of the Madonna.
