The life of the famous Cardinal-Duke de Richlieu, . principal minister of state to Lewis XIII. King of France and Navarr. Vol. II.
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3052436
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],381,[35]p., [1] leaf of plates . port.. . 8vo.. Shelved and uniform with vol. 1. Former shelfmarks: Aa.7.59 (in pencil), Aa.7.48 (pencil). manuscript bookseller's[?] code on front pastedown: "X/X/2".. Provenance: Round gilt armorial bookplate on front pastedown: William Twopeny (motto "Virtute et industria") [probably William Twopeny (1797-1873)]. Round bookplate on front fly-leaf: E libris Ludovici Clarke (motto "Praemium virtutis honor"). manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf and title page, illegible signature. Armorial bookplate on recto of frontispiece: Robert Harley of Bramton Castle in the County of Hereford Esqr., late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century. Gilt signature stamp on title page verso: Ro: Harley:.. Binding: Late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf armorial centrepiece binding; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine edge; gilt oval armorial centrepiece stamp on both boards: Harley arms (a bend cottised) within decorative border with motto "Virtute et fide", 'Robert Harley' on either side; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with red gilt title label.
Makers and roles
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) Thomas Brown (1663-1704)