imitation [de] Jésus-Christ.
Contributors: Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471.; Curmer, L.; Marillac, Michel de, 1563-1632.; Gruel, Léon, 1841-1923 (binder); Claye, Jules Alexandre Saturnin, 1806-1886 (printer); Lemercier (Firm)
Publisher: L. Curmer
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 399
Work titles: Imitatio Christi. French. 1856
Notes: A reprint of the 1626 Paris ed., with translation by Michel de Marillac.  Reproduces the 1626 t.p.: IV livres de l'imitation de Iesvs-Christ : qu'aucuns attribuent à Ieffen, d'autres à Gerson, & d'autres à Thomas, à Kempis, fidelement traduits. A Paris : Chez Nicolas Gasse ..., 1626.

Originally issued in parts.

Each page within elaborate chromolithographed border reproduced from manuscript illuminations.

"Chromolithographie de Lemercier. Typographie de J. Claye".

"Preface" (XII p., first series) signed L. Curmer.

MASS copy: With the bookplate of Ruari McLean. Bound in brown calf, with silk doublures, by Gruel. Lacking the appendix and other scholarly apparatus found in some copies.