The history of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine.
Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier (1693-1765)
Category
Books
Date
1755 - 1761
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3026051
Summary
Bibliographic description
10v., plates : maps,port. ; 8vo. Imperfect: wants vol. 6-10. Pencil mark "D 3/7"; "L-C4"; ink mark "2I". Provenance: Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century armorial bookplate showing Stewart arms impaled with Pratt arms, flanked by Stewart supporters, underneath an earl's coronet. Motto "Metuenda corolla draconis", lettered "Londonderry" [used by either Robert Stewart (1739-1821) cr. 1st Earl of Londonderry in 1796, cr. 1st Marquess of Londonderry in 1816, or his second wife Lady Frances Pratt (ca. 1751-1833), dau. of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, sewn on three cords (plus 2 false bands). Brown leather spine labels, lettered in gilt "Crevier's Roman Emperors". Edges lightly sprinkled red and brown.: "Londonderry", probably mid-nineteenth century. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding.
Makers and roles
Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier (1693-1765)