The life of the famous Cardinal-Duke de Richlieu, . principal minister of state to Lewis XIII. King of France and Navarr. Vol. I.
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3018764
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32],272,289-376p. . ports..,folded map . 8vo. Shelved and uniform with vol. 2. Former shelfmarks: Aa.7.58 (in pencil), Aa.7.47 (pencil). manuscript price in pencil on front pastedown: "Đ3.17.6". manuscript bookseller's[?] codes on front pastedown: "H2", "557" (circled), and "X/X/1". manuscript marginalia in pencil, pp. 12-60.. Provenance: Round gilt armorial bookplate on front pastedown: William Twopeny (motto "Virtute et industria") [probably William Twopeny (1797-1873)]. manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "R June 1743". Round bookplate on second front fly-leaf: E libris Ludovici Clarke (motto "Praemium virtutis honor"). manuscript inscription on third front fly-leaf and title-page, illegible signature. Armorial bookplate on recto of frontispiece: Robert Harley of Bramton Castle in the County of Hereford Esqr., late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century. Gilt signature stamp on title-page verso: Ro: Harley:.. Binding: Late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf armorial centrepiece binding; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine edge; gilt oval armorial centrepiece stamp on both boards: Harley arms (a bend cottised) within decorative border with motto Virtute et fide, Robert Harley on either side; gilt roll on board edges.
Makers and roles
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) Thomas Brown (1663-1704)