The century of Louis XIV : its art - its ideas / from the French of Émile Bourgeois … by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.
Émile Bourgeois (1857-1934)
Category
Books
Date
1895
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085757
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvii, [1], 470 p., XXII leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 4to. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "30/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full red cloth; gilt stamped decoration on upper board: crown, wreath and ribbon centrepiece, fleurs-de-lys cornerpieces and decorative outer border; blind stamped centrepiece on lower board: crown, wreath and ribbon; title, fleur-de-lys and crown gilt stamped on spine; gilt textblock edges; red endpapers with gilt printed design as on upper board; red ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Émile Bourgeois (1857-1934), author Frances Sarah Johnston, Mrs John Cashel Hoey (1830-1908), translator