Imitatio Christi [and] Johannes GERSON, De meditatione cordis.

4to: [56] ff., 39 ll. (sl. toned, some marg. soiling).

Cont. blind-stamped calf over wood, bevelled edges, covers with circular and lozenge-shaped stamps, lower cover embossed, spine on 3 raised bands, tooled metal catch with inscription (?) (rebacked, clasp gone). Very good, partly uncut, copy.

Early Venetian ed. of the famous Imitatio Christi. Rubricated initials. Ref. ISTC ii00008000. - Goff I-8. - Polain 2052. - BMC V:390. - CIBN T-230. - BSB-Ink T-167. Prov. 0wnership entries on 1st f. and a1r "S. Magni in Fuessen", i.e. the Benedictine monastery of St. Mang (Magnus) in Füssen (Ostallgäu, Bavaria). - [Georges Petit].