Pensées ingenieuses des anciens et des modernes. Recueillies par le P. B. Nouvelle edition augmentée.
Father Dominique Bouhours (1628-1702)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032888
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 357, [3] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7366. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "β'." [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Early armorial bookplate (Franks *68 or *71) on verso of title page: 'The Right Honble. Charles Lord Halifax 1702', with arms of Montagu quartering Monthermer, coronet of a baron, griffin supporters and motto "Otium cum dignitate" [i.e. Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; gold-tooled spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red and brown (very dark green?) sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Father Dominique Bouhours (1628-1702), author