Les Mystères de Paris
Eugene Sue(1804-1857)
Category
Books
Date
1843 - 1844
Materials
Measurements
270 x 193 x 29 mm
Place of origin
France
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3106479.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Text Substrate: Ink/Pigment: Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding with over-case & hollow back Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: French End Leaves: Structure: English Edges: Spine Lining: End Bands: stuck-on folded bookcloth endbands Bookmark: Boards: Covering: Half pebble grain green tanned goatskin, with parchment tipes amd a black morocco-grain embossed paper on the sides. Tooling Spine: Tooling Sides: Furniture: Enclosure: Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
v. 1. . ill.., ports.. . 4to.. Former shelfmark: Rr.3.18 (in ink). Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. manuscript on bookplate: "1877" and "Charles" [i.e. Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke (1836-1897)]. Bookseller's[?] ticket on front fly-leaf: 'Aux deux créoles rue du F. St. Honoré, 60, Paris Delarue, Mr. Papetier fourniture de bureaux'.. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter-bound green goatskin[?], with black grained cloth over boards; gold-tooled spine. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Eugene Sue(1804-1857)