Le nouvel Abeilard :. ou, Lettres de deux amans qui ne se sont jamais vus.
Restif de La Bretonne, 1734-1806
Category
Books
Date
1778
Materials
Place of origin
Neuchatel
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3075919
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., [10] leaves of plates ;. 12mo. Accession no. 4351.1-4 Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: contemporary owner unknown, but the collection of 85 volumes appears in the Paris auction of the books of R.S. Turner [connoisseur of French books [(1818-1887)]. Baron Ferdinand acquired 78 of these volumes from Morgand et Fatout from 1888 onwards. Binding: bound uniform with other works by La Bretonne. General description as follows: in slightly coarse red morocco with triple fillet around boards. Flat spine, gilt, with citron lettering- and numeration- pieces. Spine panels bear a flower between six stars and the pallet at the foot portrays a bird among stylised foliage. The markers and headbands are light blue and the turn-in roll (double chevron and triangular leaf shape) identical throughout the set. Leaf edges burnished with a metallic reflection, cap of leather over the headbands hatched. Endleaves mostly of leaf marble, but some volumes have a herringbone pattern. Almost every volume has been patched at top or bottom of spine with leather of a different colour. This volume bound 15 Aôut 1779 (manuscript note).
Makers and roles
Restif de La Bretonne, 1734-1806 Peter Abélard (1079 - 1142)