Hours with Rabelais . Edited by F.G. Stokes.
François Rabelais (1490-1553)
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3136662
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxv, [1], 374, [2], 39, [1] p., frontis. port . ill.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Pictorial bookplate of Alda Hoare. - Inscribed by the editor to Lady Hoare 'Xmas 1905'. - Entered in Alda Hoare's Supplementary catalogue, 1936: p. 134, X.10. Binding: Red cloth, gold-lettered. - Two ALs in ink tipped in, headed '5, Summerlands Mansions / Muswell Hill, N.' dated respectively 'Oct 9 / 1909' in anticipation of a visit, and '16/11/09' following his visit, and signed by F.G. Stokes. The second is annotated by Alda Hoare to the effect that Stokes stayed at Stourhead in November 1909 and 'catalogued, then, the Library'. - Newspaper cuttings attached.
Makers and roles
François Rabelais (1490-1553) Pdeter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718) Francis Griffin Stokes Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660)