THOMAS, A KEMPIS

Opera … aucta & diligentius recognita …

      [Paris:] Vaenundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio (1523). The title-page with a fine, deep woodcut border enclosing Badius's large woodcut of a printing press in use, folios (8), 191, (1, blank), folio, old half roan : with a short clean tear without loss in two leaves and the running headline touched only very slightly on just a very few leaves, otherwise a well-margined and very good-nice copy. Adams K14 (2 copies). An uncommon edition of the collected works, ascetical, homiletic, poetical, biographical, etc., all pervaded by the devotional spirit which finds its classic expression in the 'Imitation', of this ascetical writer (1380-1471). This edition follows that of Pirckheimer (1494) and carries his intrroduction as well as a short prologue by Jodocus Badius, the publisher of the present edition.