Atala:
François-Auguste-René Chateaubriand, vicomte de Chateaubriand (Nantes 1768 - Nantes 1848)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140442
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [iii]-vi, 232p., plates . ill.. . 12mo.. Not indigenous. Marshall Sisson bequest.. Provenance: Book label: Marshall Sisson. manuscript inscription, crossed through: "Julia W Eichbaum[?]", and below in the same hand: "Theresa Jessica[?] C. Baum Baughton from her friend J. WE.". Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper over boards; spine gilt tooled; black spine label, gilt lettered. Spine almost detached, sewing secure.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1978 by Marshall Sisson.
Makers and roles
François-Auguste-René Chateaubriand, vicomte de Chateaubriand (Nantes 1768 - Nantes 1848) Salomon Gessner (Zurich 1730-1788) Jacques Henri Bernardin de de Saint Pierre (1737-1814)