Jugemens des savans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs. Par Adrien Baillet. Revûs, corrigés, & augmentés par M. De la Monnoye de l'Académie Françoise. Tome premier.
Adrien Baillet (1649 - 1706)
Category
Books
Date
1722
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031656.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1. Running number: 7852. Extensive mould-staining and water-staining, and cockling throughout; insect damage at rear; foot of front endpapers through to sig. B2 with mouse[?] damage. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 8. Tomes" [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine in six compartments, (1) and (4)-(6) with dolphin and crown ornament and foliate tools within fillet and dotted roll frame, (2) with gilt title on brown leather label, (3) with gilt vol. number stamped directly onto spine; red sprinkled textblock edges. Water-damaged.
Makers and roles
Adrien Baillet (1649 - 1706), author Bernard de La Monnoye (1641-1728), editor Nicolas-Étienne Edelinck (Paris 1681 - Paris 1767), engraver (printmaker)