THE EXEMPLARY LIFE OF THE PIOUS LADY GUION, translated from her own account in the original French, to which is added A New Translation of Her Short and Easy Method of Prayer by Thomas Digby Brooke

488pp. (to p.7 in Roman), all edges red; sm.1883 dated sig.top fr. blank fly-leaf plus fragment of apparently earlier inscribed paper, otherwise internally excellent being clean, tight & unmarked with marbled endpapers, fr.gutter cracking but secure, end gutter also cracking but to lesser extent. Tooled calf covers with dentelle edges clean but rubbing to extremities, board margins, joints and v.sl.to surfaces elsewhere, bottom joints cracked with some loss to 5 cms of fr.joint, paneled sp. otherwise quite sound though has presumably lost label as only impressed title remains; despite these binding faults the book remains tight and not unattractive. Scarce translation by Brooke of the autobiography of the charismatic French Quietist, previously published in Dublin in 1775, BL records only these two editions.