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THOMAS À KEMPIS (c.1380-1471, Saint). Opera: Sermones, epistolae et alia opuscula. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 29 November 1494.
Chancery 2° (290 x 197mm). Gothic type, double column, red manuscript initials, some foliated, initial spaces with printed guide-letter, paragraph marks in red, capitals filled in yellow. (Lacking two preliminary leaves.) 18th-century red straight-grained morocco gilt by Richard Weir, spine tooled in six compartments gilt with diamond-shape floral panels with thistle corners, marbled end-papers. Provenance: unlocalised Celestine monastery of the BVM (inscription at end) -- Antonius Sansonnetus (early inscription at end)-- De Beaufort (inscription dated 1642)-- Count MacCarthy-Reagh (1815 catalogue, n.785) -- George Dunn of Woolley Hall (booklabel; sale, Sotheby's, 4 February 1914. lot 1298, £5 to Tregaskis) -- Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park (booklabel).
A newly recognised addition to the oeuvre of the Scottish craftsman Richard Weir. This binding is closely similar to two books in the British Library identified by Ramsden as Weir bindings executed for Count MacCarthy-Reagh's library at Toulouse. All these books appear in the MacCarthy catalogue of 1815 (C. Ramsden, 'Richard Weir and Count MacCarthy-Reagh', Book Collector, Winter 1953, pp. 247-257). SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST COMPLETE. It contains the saint's most famous work, the Imitatio Christi, not present in the earlier Utrecht edition (c.1473). HC(Add) *9769; Polain(B) 3777; BMC II, 475; Goff T-352.
Chancery 2° (290 x 197mm). Gothic type, double column, red manuscript initials, some foliated, initial spaces with printed guide-letter, paragraph marks in red, capitals filled in yellow. (Lacking two preliminary leaves.) 18th-century red straight-grained morocco gilt by Richard Weir, spine tooled in six compartments gilt with diamond-shape floral panels with thistle corners, marbled end-papers. Provenance: unlocalised Celestine monastery of the BVM (inscription at end) -- Antonius Sansonnetus (early inscription at end)-- De Beaufort (inscription dated 1642)-- Count MacCarthy-Reagh (1815 catalogue, n.785) -- George Dunn of Woolley Hall (booklabel; sale, Sotheby's, 4 February 1914. lot 1298, £5 to Tregaskis) -- Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park (booklabel).
A newly recognised addition to the oeuvre of the Scottish craftsman Richard Weir. This binding is closely similar to two books in the British Library identified by Ramsden as Weir bindings executed for Count MacCarthy-Reagh's library at Toulouse. All these books appear in the MacCarthy catalogue of 1815 (C. Ramsden, 'Richard Weir and Count MacCarthy-Reagh', Book Collector, Winter 1953, pp. 247-257). SECOND EDITION, THE FIRST COMPLETE. It contains the saint's most famous work, the Imitatio Christi, not present in the earlier Utrecht edition (c.1473). HC(Add) *9769; Polain(B) 3777; BMC II, 475; Goff T-352.
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