La pucelle : ou France delivree poëme heroïque. / Par M. Chapelain..
Jean Chapelain (1595 - 1674)
Category
Books
Date
1656
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3030516
Summary
Bibliographic description
[52], 522, [14] p. : ill., ports. (metal cut) ; fol. Imperfect: wanting the final blank leaf. Pp. 35-8 (sigs. E2-3) and pp. 227-30 (sigs. Ff2-3) transposed in binding. Pencil “199” on front pastedown. Provenance: 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: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, panelled sheep over boards on six raised cords; gilt spine tooling; red-brown spine label; double blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers; blind roll on board edges; red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jean Chapelain (1595 - 1674), author