Anti-Baillet, ou Critique du livre de Mr. Baillet, intitulé jugemens des savans. Par Mr. Ménage. Avec les observations de Mr. de La Monnoye, & les reflexions sur les Jugemens des savans.
Gilles Ménage (1613-1692)
Category
Books
Date
1730
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3038416
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxii, 536, 557-633, [3] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7852. Shelved and uniform, as vol. 8, with Baillet's Jugemens des savans (Paris, 1722). Extensive water-staining throughout; some mould-staining; insect damage at rear. Provenance: manuscript inscription in first vol. of set: "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
Gilles Ménage (1613-1692), author Bernard de La Monnoye (1641-1728), author