Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte

Opuscules Spirituels de Madame J.M.B. de la Mothe Guion

      Cologne Jean de la Pierre 1704. "Nouvelle edition, Augmentee de son rare Traite des Torrents, qui n'avoit pas encore vu le jour, & d'une Preface Generale touchant Sa personne, sa doctrine, & les oppositions qu'on leur a suscitees." 64, [10], 532, [2], 83, [1] p.; 14 cm. (5.25 inches). 12mo. Signatures: a-b12 c8 A-Y12 Z8 Aa-Cc12 Dd6. Contemporary full calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled titled: "Opuscu Spirit." Gilt-tooled decoration in other compartments. Gilt-tooled decoration of board edges. All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Green ribbon bookmark. Errata on p. [2] following main section. Bound with: Regle des Associes a l'Enfance de Jesus (Cologne: Jean de la Pierre, 1705), with half-title: Suite des Opuscules Spirituels de Mad. Guion. Errata on final page for the Regle and for the Preface to the entire volume, indicating that the publisher intended for these works to be bound together. Former owner's name on blank leaf preceding title page: P.L. Upham. Phebe Lord Upham and her husband, Bowdoin College professor Thomas Cogswell Upham, were leaders of the mid-19th-century American Holiness Movement, which sought to connect with the experiences of earlier mystics, including Madame Guyon, a French Quietist. In 1838 P.L. Upham published Letters of Madame Guyon, while her husband published Life, Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madame de la Mothe Guyon in 1846. In Good+ Condition: corners are rubbed; small loss of leather at corners and ends of spine; leather has been treated with an unknown form of leather preservation material; lacking engraved half-title; foxing along fore-edge of pages 13-40 of main section, heavy on a few Signed. Good+