Of the Imitation of Christ. Four Books

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1896. Hardcover. Incomplete. 16mo. [2], viii, pages 9-201, [1]. Book one only. Rebound in tan buckram with gilt stamped cross and title on the front cover. Newer end sheets. Printed name "Mitchell" on the contents page. One of the original chipped end sheets has been trimmed and pasted onto a newer end paper in front. The inscription reads "Dearest "May Belle" from your loving husband Eugene M. Mitchell Christmas 1899. Atlanta Ga (part of the inscription is chipped). Book one of four only. Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eugene Muse Mitchell (1866-1944) was born in Atlanta in 1866 to Russell Crawford Mitchell and Deborah Margaret Sweet. He graduated from the University of Georgia law school in 1886. He was an Atlanta attorney, co-founder of the Atlanta Historical Society, and father of Stephens Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell author of Gone With the Wind. His wife was Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens.

Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens Mitchell (1872-1919) was a suffragist, political activist, member of the Atlanta Woman's Club and a devout Catholic. She was the mother of Margaret and Stephens Mitchell. Her father was John Stephens and her mother was Annie Fitzgerald Stephens. Maybelle attended the Villa Maria Convent in Quebec and the Atlanta Female Seminary Institute graduating in 1892. She married Eugene Muse Mitchell in 1893. She died in the 1919 flu outbreak.