The Christian's Pattern, or, a Treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, in Four Books. To Which are Added, Meditations and Prayers for Sick Persons
by a Kempis, Thomas; Meditations by George Stanhope
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Charlestown: Printed by W. S. & H. Spear, for Asa Lyman, Bookseller Portland, 1812. Leather Bound. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 315, [2], 42 pages. Hardcover bound in full leather. The original binding has a later (but still apparently 19th century) leather covering laid over with a square cut out on the spine for the original leather title label to show. The binding is rubbed and bumped but sound. An ex-library copy with remains of bookplates on the front pastedown (one has a handwritten date of 1828). There is a tear in the gutter of the title page, and the first leaf of the Table of Contents has a large portion torn away with significant loss of text. Browning around the edges of the title page, and the text of the book is toned with some foxing. A few pages have edge tears. Text of the main body of the work is complete.
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- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 049146
- Title
- The Christian's Pattern, or, a Treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, in Four Books. To Which are Added, Meditations and Prayers for Sick Persons
- Author
- a Kempis, Thomas; Meditations by George Stanhope
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by W. S. & H. Spear, for Asa Lyman, Bookseller Portland
- Place of Publication
- Charlestown
- Date Published
- 1812
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1812; Thomas a' Kempis, George Stanhope; Jesus Christ; Christian; Christianity; American Imprint; General Antiquarian; Collectible; Rare; Leather Binding; 19th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Christian Spirituality & Living;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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