Histoire metallique de la Republique de Hollande. Par Mr Bizot.
Pierre Bizot (1630-1696)
Category
Books
Date
1687
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3078222
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 317, [19] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6013. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "8. M. NB. The plate which should be placed at p. 281 is put in at p. 274" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ι½" [i.e. iota½ = Greek number 10½]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "-15-". Manuscript booksellers' code[?] on front pastedown: "d-v". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine with gilt floral stamps; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Pierre Bizot (1630-1696) Jacaques Lalouette (fl.1670-1693), engraver (printmaker) Sébastien Le Clerc (Metz 1637 - Paris 1714), artist