Memoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, seigneur d'Argenton, . contenans l'histoire ds rois Louys XI. & Charles VIII. depuis l'an 1464. jusques en 1498. Augmentez de plusieurs traittez, contracts, testaments, actes, & observations. Par feu Mr. Denys Godefroy, conseiller, & historiographe ordinaire du Roy.
Philippe de Commynes (1447-1511), seigneur d'Argenton.
Category
Books
Date
1706
Materials
Place of origin
Belgium
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3022670
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 3 pt. (t.1,i-ii,[t.2]; t. 1,i = [24], 442 p., frontis., 4 portraits, folding table; t.1,ii = [8], 443-639, [25]; 284, [16] p., port.; [t.2] = xxxix, [9], 492, [4] p., folding table) : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: printer's preface ("L'imprimeur au lecteur"), which should form part of preliminaries to t. 1,i, misbound with preliminaries of t. 1,ii. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper to all volumes. Binding: eighteenth century sprinkled calf; decorative tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooling, gilt tooled title label reading "Memoir de Comine" and volume numbers on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Makers and roles
Philippe de Commynes (1447-1511), seigneur d'Argenton. Denis Godefroy Jean de Troyes