Memoires de la reyne Marguerite.
Queen Marguerite (de Valois) Queen of France (1553-1615)
Category
Books
Date
1649
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3020325
Summary
Bibliographic description
144p. . 12mo. Bound with this: Torriano's 'Select Italian proverbs' (1642). MS proverb on flyleaf (17th-century English hand): 'Piu tira un pelo di donna che cento carra di buoi'. Provenance: Signature on flyleaf: J. Dalton J C S [= John Dalton (1628-c.1688), fellow of (1) Magdalene and (2) St John's Colleges, Cambridge ('intruded' at St John's 1650)]. Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 135. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, double fillet borders and off-centre vertical rule; blind-stamped corner-pieces. Spine-label: 'Memoi de Margu'.
Makers and roles
Queen Marguerite (de Valois) Queen of France (1553-1615)