[DELAUNAY, Henri]. L'Imitation de N.-S. Jésus-Christ. 1864.

First edition of the new translation from an unpublished manuscript of 1440 by Abbot Henri Delaunay who was a great collector of manuscripts and editions of this famous text of Christian piety.

Our exceptional copy printed on green tinted laid paper. No such print was identified for this publication. Vicar [IV, 494] reports 500 ex. tinted for the 1875 imitation edition from Curmer, but not for this one.

The printing was carried out by the printing house "Jouaust et fils" and this book coming from a library owned by the descendants of the Jouaust family, we are tempted to suggest that it would be a copy that the printers had intended. This would also explain the absence of engravings, printed by another workshop.