The imitation of Christ / as written by Thomas à Kempis ; translated by Richard Whitford and decorated by Valenti Angelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, author.

Contributor:

Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?, translator.

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Imitatio Christi. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Meditations--Early works to 1800.

Meditations.

Devotional literature.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Physical Description:

234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Mt. Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, [1947?]

Notes:

"First Latin edition circa 1486; first English version 1503; first edition of the present translation 1556; re-edited into modern English by Wilfrid Raynal, O.S.B. 1872"--verso of title page.

Nihil obstat and Imprimatur on verso of title page.

In slipcase.

Not in Donnelly & Dobkin.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

OCLC:

10718882