Oeuvres posthumes de Fréderic II, Roi de Prusse.
King Frederick II, ‘The Great’ King of Prussia (1712-1786)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3094452
Summary
Bibliographic description
15v.,plate (frontis.) . port.. . 8vo. Bookseller's manuscript note on free endpaper of vol. I: 'L/L 15 vols'. Vol. XI has marginal pencil marks, almost certainly made by Sir George otto Treelyan (1838-1928).. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled boards; spine title: Oeuvres de Frederic II. Vol. XI has been rebound, preserving original marbled boards.
Makers and roles
King Frederick II, ‘The Great’ King of Prussia (1712-1786) Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveaux (1749-1827)