Kempis (Thomas à) De Imitatione Christi, Paris, half-title, engraved title, some light marginal foxing or toning, but generally a good, clean copy with wide margins, armorial bookplate of Richard Neave to front pastedown, handsome dark blue straight-grain morocco gilt by Charles Hering, spine gilt in compartments, light toning to spine, g.e., [Brunet III, 415], folio, [Imprimerie Royale], 1640.

⁂ A handsome copy of the first book to be printed by the Imprimerie Royale founded the same year by Cardinal Richelieu. Bound by Charles Hering, arguably the greatest of the German immigrant binders who came to London during the 19th century.