Les voeux téméraires ou l'enthousiasme.
Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830)
Category
Books
Date
1798
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3040596
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 vols., 8vo. MS shelfmark on front pastedown: 4.D. Provenance: Nineteenth-century monogram bookplate, surmounted by a countess's coronet: FL [i.e.: Lady Frances Pratt (c.1751-1833), second wife of Robert Stewart (1739-1821), after her assumption of the title Countess in 1796)]. Inscribed: "Frances Londonderry the gift of her friend the Earl of Wycombe" [i.e.: a gift from William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), to Lady Frances Pratt (c.1751-1833), second wife of Robert Stewart (1739-1821)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full tree calf; recessed cords; red spine labels: Les Voeux Temerair; green volume numbers, gold tooled.
Makers and roles
Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830)