Menagiana ou Les bons mots et remarques critiques, historiques, morales & d'érudition, de monsieur Menage, recueillies par ses amis. Tome premier[-quatrieme]. Nouvelle edition.
Gilles Ménage (1613-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1729
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3015426
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. ; 12mo. Running number: 7357. Vols. 1 and 4 with water staining throughout; vols. 2 and 3 with some water staining. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 4. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spines; gilt title and vol. number on reddish-brown morocco labels on spines. Red and brown sprinkled textblock edges. Comb and swirl marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Gilles Ménage (1613-1692), author Bernard de La Monnoye (1641-1728), editor