1659 L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ, Traduite par P. Corneille - 100+ Engravings

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L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduite & Paraphrasée en Vers François. Par P. Corneille. Parties Premier & Seconde (Complete). Imprimée à Roven par L. Maurry, Pour Robert Ballard, seul Imprimeur de la Musique du Roy, à Paris, ruë S. Iean de Beauuais, au Mont Parnasse. 1659, 416 pp, 304 pp, finely bound in contemporary red moroccan leather, 112 copperplate engravings, 5.75 x 3.5", 12mos. In fair condition. Leather binding lightly scuffed at edges & worn at corners from age-related shelf-wear. Heads and tails of spines rubbed, but intact. Gilt lettering, ruling, and deco are dulled in some places, but are overall bright, clean, and present well. All edges of both volumes gilt. Marbled end-papers clean & bright. Gilt dentelles at top edges of paste-downs are lightly soiled, but still present well. Light toning throughout text-blocks, with some instances of finger-soiling or age-staining. Light off-setting from engraved plates. Vol. II's rear board is warped/bent, but still intact. No known previous ownership or marginalia. Modern binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarreled with him. Corneille's best known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis is one of the most widely read Christian spiritual books in existence. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, c. 1418; several other authors have been proposed, but Kempis's authorship is generally accepted now. Corneille first produced his poetical paraphrase in French in 1651. This is a 1659 edition, complete in two volumes, heavily illustrated with engraved copperplates. Presents very well. Gift quality. N° de ref. del artículo RAREF1659EOPQ

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