[Fine Binding | Bayntun] Of the Imitation of Christ E-List 34 useful friends

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Paper covered boards with grey-toned page edges

Rear cover design is nearly identical

Bookplate of Maud Ernestine Gladstone (daughter-in-law to William Gladstone)

Five wide bands to spine with titling to second compartment and floral stamp to remaining compartments

[Fine Binding | Bayntun] Of the Imitation of Christ E-List 34 useful friendsKempis, Thomas A. Of the Imitation of Christ in Four Books. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1905. Limited to 500 copies for England and America. Printed on Aldwych handmade paper. Initials printed in red and black, reproduced from French volumes of the fifteenth century. Bound in dark navy crushed morocco by Bayntun with covers featuring an overlayed rectangle and diamond frame, tooled in blind and gilt. Five bands to spine with title and