A Collection of Sermons and other Treatises from the Works of the Author of the Imitation of Christ. Newly translated from the edition of [Henricus] Sommalius. S. J. Never before printed in the English Tongue.

Publication details: London: Printed in the Year1765

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An attractive eighteenth-century vernacular collection of sermons and sundry other pieces attributed to Thomas Kempis, translated from the edition of Henricus Sommalius (1534-1619). The Imitatio and other works by Thomas Kempis, whether in anglo-catholic firebrand Richard Challoner's famous translation or in anonymous versions, remained popular with Anglo-Catholics into the nineteenth-century. Like that work, these tracts stress an interior spiritual life, meditation, rejection of the world's materialism, and the practice of Holy Communion to strengthen faith.The present edition is scarce, with just eleven copies listed on OCLC.

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With the final errata/advertisement leaf; uniformly toned with the occasional light patch of foxing, one leaf partially sprung; pp. 302, [2], 12mo; near-contemporary binding of full scarlet leather over boards, gilt rule and rolls, gilt-decorated black leather oval onlays to both covers incorporating the Christogram 'JHS', stars and cherub stamps; lightly rubbed at extremities; charming early nineteenth-century ownership inscription of one Mary Teresa, 'The gift of the dear Reverend M. / May 6th 1834'; later book label of the Holy Sepulchre Library, New Hall.

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