Oeuvres posthumes de Fréderic II, Roi de Prusse.
King Frederick II, ‘The Great’ King of Prussia (1712-1786)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
leather, paper
Measurements
215 x 130 mm; 25 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3094452.11
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.11.,8vo. 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. Has been rebound, preserving original marbled boards.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
King Frederick II, ‘The Great’ King of Prussia (1712-1786) Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveaux (1749-1827)