Familiar letters of love, gallantry, . and several other occasions: by the wits of the last and present age. ... From their originals. With their effiges [sic] curiously engraved ... In two volumes.
Vincent de Voiture (1597-1648)
Category
Books
Date
1724
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127155
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates . ports.. . 12mo.. Not indigenous. Incomplete set: v. 1 only. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on title page verso: His Excellency the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Strafford, Viscount Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, and of Stainborough, Baron of Raby, Newmarch, and Oversley, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary to the States General of ye United Provinces, and also at the Congress at Utrecht; ... First Lord of the Admiralty ... and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter. 1712. (Franks 31318 or 31319) [i.e. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (2nd creation) (1672-1739), diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty] Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Eighteenth-century panelled calf over boards; brown spine label with title 'Letters of Gallent'; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Vincent de Voiture (1597-1648)