The art of speaking: / written in French by Messieurs du Port Royal: in persuance of a former treatise, intituled, The art of thinking. Rendred into English.
Bernard Lamy (1640-1715)
Category
Books
Date
1708
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3028527
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 325, [11] p ; 12mo. Provenance: eighteenth-century “CA” on flyleaf. Manuscript inscription on titlepage: Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled panelled calf over boards on four raised cords, single gilt fillet on spine, red spine label, double blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, blind roll on board edges, red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Bernard Lamy (1640-1715), author Pierre Nicole (1625-1695), author