La régence 1715-1723 / Frantz Funck-Brentano ...
Jacques Chrétien Frantz Seraphicus Funck-Brentano (1862-1947)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100925
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 220, [2] p., [53] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Copy no. 102. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£5/5/-". Ephemera: loosely inserted clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'R. D. Steedman / Bookseller / Newcastle-upon-Tyne'. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Funck-Brentano / La régence 1715-1723'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front-turn-in: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Jacques Chrétien Frantz Seraphicus Funck-Brentano (1862-1947), author