{"product_id":"1860s-imitation-de-jesus-christ-noble-provenance-clasps-gauffered-edges","title":"1860s Imitation de Jésus-Christ | Noble Provenance, Clasps, \u0026 Gauffered Edges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImitation de Jésus-Christ (The Imitation of Christ). Printed by Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Paris, France. Published 1860s. French Language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA stunning Gothic-Revival binding with diamond-lattice embossing across full brown leather cover, detailed double metal clasps with\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e openwork scroll designs that carry an architectural look, mimicking the stone tracery window frames found in Gothic cathedrals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll page edges are a vibrant red with gold-gilt gauffered Maltese crosses, endpapers marbled, gold dentelle work around interior turn-ins, colorful floral chromolithograph frontispiece, several engraved plates throughout. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRomantic cartonnage binding in navy blue, gold, and grey. An elaborate design on the front and back covers comprised of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003edense floral garlands, symmetrical scrolls, and architectural volutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003eBookseller's ticket is still inside the front cover. It marks where the book was originally purhcased: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eA. Poirier-Legros (a\u003c\/span\u003e prominent 19th-century Catholic Bookstore and specialist religious bookbinder) in at Rue d'Orleans, 8, Nantes, France. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003eThere is a handwritten inscription that reads: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003e15 Juin 1862. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003eSouvenir de 1ère Communion \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003edonné a notre fille Marie. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003ePrie avec tout ton cœur pour \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003eton père et ta mère \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003eAlphe. de Monti de Rezé \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"zhvwWe\"\u003eE. de Monti de Rezé. Which translated, means: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"lQkWXb\" data-animation-nesting=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-sae=\"\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin: 4px 40px 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIDBAB\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eJune 15th, 1862. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eSouvenir of First Communion \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003egiven to our daughter Marie. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003ePray with all your heart for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eyour father and your mother.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-pl=\"|||[]\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eAlphonse de Monti de Rezé \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eE. de Monti de Rezé\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIDBAB\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eThe De Monti de Reze family is an ancient, prominent house of the French nobility rooted in the history of the Brittany region. By \u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e1669\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, they acquired the Lordship of Rezé and built \u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eChâteau de Rezé\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (a Louis XIII-style castle that still stands today as a historic monument). The family served as high-ranking financial advisors and even as Mayors of Nantes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIDBAB\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIDBAB\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eAlphonse was the brother of \u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003eIsidore Marie Édouard de Monti de Rezé (the 7th Comte de Rezé), and they later became personal wartime aides for the exiled French crown prince (the Comte de Chambord) in Austria. When they finally returned to their estates near Nantes, they were celebrated as local symbols of unbending traditional Catholic nobility\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"n6owBd awi2gc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-hveid=\"CAAIDBAB\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"yhAwj\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-sfc-inited=\"2\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(230, 232, 240);'\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[]--\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e87 mm W x 130 mm H. 504 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Some marks to the cover and spine, light rubbing to the corners, some discoloration to the cover, some foxing throughout. Excellent condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease review all photos closely and reach out with any questions. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stinky Old Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62697259204995,"sku":null,"price":545.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/6914\/8035\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_76388cb1-5c90-42df-84a0-6446a26ead7d.jpg?v=1790283749","url":"https:\/\/stinkyoldbooks.com\/products\/1860s-imitation-de-jesus-christ-noble-provenance-clasps-gauffered-edges","provider":"Stinky Old Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}