✨Rare- 1773 The Imitation of Christ in Latin, published in Paris. This is a full red leather, custom binding… with gold gilt flowers and detail all over! It is in amazing condition for its age. It contains 5 high quality engravings and It has the beautiful textured pages inside that have a rare blue tint to them! **For artists, blue paper (known in Italian as carta azzurra) was a valuable medium that provided an inherent middle tone. The first book printed on blue paper was in 1514, and the practice continued for certain luxury or special editions of books throughout the 18th century. The decline of handmade blue paper in the late 1700s was due to the rise of mass-produced, uniformly white paper. So this is a unique detail in this book! **The Imitation of Christ is a classic Christian devotional book offering guidance on how to live a holy life by following Jesus’s example, focusing on inner spiritual life, humility, self-denial, prayer, and drawing closer to God through simple, virtuous living rather than worldly knowledge or distractions. It serves as a handbook for spiritual contemplation, teaching readers to turn away from worldly vanities to find eternal truths and achieve union with Christ, making it one of the most influential Christian texts after the Bible.
