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4:00 AM PT - Dec 11th, 2008

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Kempis.Of the Imitation of Christ,1/30,b'ing,1898

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Kempis (Thomas à) Of the Imitation of Christ,
number 22 of 30 copies on japanese vellum and signed by the printers, from an edition limited to 660, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations and decorative title border by Clemence Housman after Laurence Housman, decorative initials, inscribed by St.John Harmsworth "To My dear Mother. St.John December 24th 1899" on front free endpaper, contemporary crimson morocco, by Bumpus of Oxford, upper cover ruled and stamped in gilt and blind with panel of fleur-de-lys and dots, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, upper cover darkened, lower a little stained, joints and corners rubbed, 8vo, printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. of the Chiswick Press, 1898.

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