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An Extract of the Christian's Pattern or A treatise on the Imitation of Christ. Written in Latin by Thomas a Kempis. Stereotype Edition

1828Best.-Nr. KMP-0612-12083'Printed for the Publisher' John Wesley / Methodist Episcopal Church 1828-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1828 'Printed for the Publisher' Wesley and the Methodist Episcopal Church Philadelphia Pennsylvania 2 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches tall brown leather hardcover gilt ruling and gilt-lettered red leather label to spine vi 208 pp. Slight soiling and moderate to heavy rubbing and edgewear to covers with spine caps lacking and cracking to both front and rear hinges which appear to have been glued at some point and hold firm. Moderate bumping to tips. Slight staining to fore page edges and slight mostly marginal staining to a handful of pages. Marginal pencil tick marks to a number of pages easily erased. Otherwise a very good copy of this rare early nineteenth century American Methodist issue. This edition not in Baker Union catalogue 2nd ed. 1991 26 OCLC or CoPac. The only 1828 issue listed was from a New York publisher. ~SSS~ 1.0P A rare 1828 Philadelphia issue of John Wesley's 'extracts' from the fifteenth century devotional classic The Imitation of Christ. Anglican cleric and theologian John Wesley 1703-1791 who with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield founded Methodism made a full translation of The Imitation from Latin to English in 1735 as one of his first published works. After the birth of the Methodist movement in 1738-39 Wesley produced this greatly abridged version entitled 'An Extract of the Christian's Pattern' first printed in 1741 and reprinted dozens of times thereafter in mostly tiny pocket-sized editions like this most of which did not survive heavy devotional use by adherents and are therefore rare today in the market. Wesley produced four different editions of Kempis’s work and considered it indispensable in achieving true religion of the heart. The Imitation of Christ was written or at a minimum transcribed by Catholic monk Thomas a Kempis circa 1380-1471 as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427 at Mount Saint Agnes monastery in the town of Windesheim located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his Augustinian monastic order followers of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life. But the writings quickly became popular among all the literate faithful. They were copied together in one manuscript as early as 1427 by Kempis and copied and later printed together fairly consistently thereafter. Soon after hand-copied versions of the Imitatio Christi initially appeared the printing press was invented and it was among the first books after the Bible to be printed. There is probably no other book other than the Bible which has been printed in so many editions and translations. 'Printed for the Publisher' [John Wesley / Methodist Episcopal Church] hardcover

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An Extract of the Christian's Pattern Imitation of Christ - John Wesley 1756 Rare Methodist Foundry Imprint

1756Best.-Nr. KMP-0162-15393John Wesley 1756. Leather Bound. Acceptable. METHODIST FOUNDRY IMPRINT KEMPIS Thomas à. An Extract of the Christian's Pattern: or A Treatise of the Imitation of Christ. Written in Latin by Thomas à Kempis. Published by John Wesley M.A. London: Printed in the Year 1756; and Sold at the Foundry Upper-Moor-Fields. First Edition thus 2 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches pocket duodecimo vii 288 13 pp. Bound in full contemporary dark calfskin featuring an elegant gilt-stamped central starburst/lozenge motif to both boards decorative gilt corner tools and spine richly tooled in gilt across four compartments with three raised bands. All edges gilt dulled. Striking contemporary combed marbled endpapers. Condition: Covers show moderate to heavy rubbing uniform scuffing and expected edge wear; tips bumped and slightly frayed with minor chipping to the spine caps. Both front and rear joints are cracked but remain stable showing evidence of early historic glue reinforcement; text block remains firm. Interior shows uniform age-toning and occasional mild marginal smudging or foxing. Heavy soiling and localized chipping to the fragile marbled endpapers most notable at the rear pastedown hinge. Leaf pp. 121-122 features an old vertical tear repaired with Japanese tissue on both sides slightly affecting the edge of the text block. Leaf pp. 133-134 shows a ragged fore-edge with minor text loss to the outer margin alongside a near full-height closed vertical tear running near the gutter margin touching the first letters of the text block but leaving legibility intact. Overall a highly complete unrestored and deeply evocative copy of a fragile heavily read Methodist survival. OCLC No. 43539199 locates only two copies worldwide: Cambridge University UK and Drew University NJ. Reference: Baker Union Catalogue of Publications of John and Charles Wesley No. 26. ~KMP~ 1.0P A remarkably rare early London imprint of John Wesley's celebrated abridgment of the 15th-century devotional classic 'The Imitation of Christ'. Anglican theologian and Methodist founder John Wesley 1703–1791 originally executed a full English translation of Thomas à Kempis's Latin text in 1735 as one of his earliest published works. Following the formal maturation of the Methodist movement in 1738–1739 Wesley realized that his followers required a more accessible portable and streamlined edition focused entirely on 'religion of the heart.' The resulting 'Extract of the Christian's Pattern' was first published in 1741 and systematically stripped of its strictly monastic medieval elements to serve as a daily spiritual handbook for the working-class Methodist societies. Because these pocket-sized volumes were subjected to intensive daily devotional use by early adherents the vast majority were read to pieces. Early editions are exceptionally scarce on the market. Following the 1741 original subsequent editions appeared in Bristol 1746 and London 1753 followed by this rare 1756 printing distributed directly from Wesley's famous ministerial headquarters and chapel at 'The Foundry' in Upper Moorfields. An essential piece of early Wesleyan typography and printing history. John Wesley hardcover

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