Perroniana et Thuana . ou pensées judicieuses, bons mots, recontres agreables & observations curieuses du Cardinal du Perron, et de mr. le President de Thou, conseiller d'état.
Cardinal Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556-1618)
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094817
Summary
Bibliographic description
384, 387-453, [5] p. ; 12mo. Provenance: armorial bookplate: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23d. 1702. [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751). Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Cardinal Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556-1618) Christophe Dupuy (1580-1654) Jacques Dupuy (1591-1656) Pierre Dupuy (1582-1651) Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617)