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PASCAL, BLAISE. Pensées . . . sur la Religion et sur quelques autres Sujets. [80], 334, [20] pages; lacks errata leaf. 12mo, 150x85 mm, brown morocco gilt by Katherine Adams with plain covers and spine in 6 compartments, lettered in one with simple pointillé floral design in the rest, stamp-signed with her monogram and dated 1902 on rear lower turn-in; varying foxing and dampstaining, light soiling on title. Signature of John Wilson dated 1815; bookplates of C. H. St. John Hornby, proprietor of the Ashendene Press, and James Stevens Cox. Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1670
Genuine second edition of Pascal's posthumously published final work, an unfinished defense of the Catholic faith, published the same year as the original edition and a piracy. Printing and the Mind of Man 152; Tchemerzine (1977) V, 70. The binding is an early example by Adams (1862-1952), whose career began in the late 1890s, and one of a substantial number she executed for Hornby.
