The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, who liv’d five and forty years undiscover’d at Paris:
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693)
Category
Books
Date
1693 - 1708
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005317
Summary
Bibliographic description
8 vols. plate. port. (metal cut) ; 12mo. Running number: 1241. Made up set: vol.1 from 5th ed. of 1693, vols. 2-8 from 6th ed. of 1707-1708. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front endleaf of vol.2 in eighteenth-century hand: "D 7 vol:". Binding (vol. 1): late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century full sprinkled brown calf over boards with double blind fillet to form a border. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Four false raised bands; undecorated spine. Two colour endbands. Two supports laced in; pastedown and endleaf at both ends. Red sprinkled edges. Binding (vols. 2-8): eighteenth-century sprinkled and plain calf over boards, blind-tooled to a panelled design with double fillet and fleurons at the corners. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Four raised bands edged with double blind lines; gilt volume number tooled directly onto spine. Endbands with primary sewing and front beads. Two supports laced in; pastedown and endleaf at both ends. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Paolo Marana (1642-1693), author Daniel Saltmarsh, translator