La contestation touchant l'autheur de l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ rendue manifeste par l'opposition de toutes les preuves proposées par les bénédictins & les chanoines réguliers [...]. Avec les preuves justificatives du droit de Thomas de Kempis.

4to: [28]-240 pp. (dampstain to the lower corner of first ff., tear to p. 137, marginal stain on p. 227).

Cont. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (dampstain in front flyleaves). Good copy.

Rare first edition of this work, also attributed to Jean Fronteau (BnF), discussing the attribution of "De Imitatione Christi". For G. de Boissy, there is no doubt that Thomas à Kempis wrote it and not Gerson. Ref. Barbier I:749. - Quérard, Sup. Litt., III:809. Prov. Henri Vanden Block, priest and chaplain of St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels (bookplates). - Receipt from the bookseller J.W. Van Leeuwen in Leiden to Van Bécelare [Becelaere]. - Libr. stamps. - French ms. notes on this work on front flyleaf.