Contes moraux . et nouvelles idylles de D... et Salomon Gessner.
Salomon Gessner (Zurich 1730-1788)
Category
Books
Date
1773
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3142062
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],184,[14]p., plates . ill.. . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signature (Strongitharm) illegible: 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7704; Lee's London Bookplates (1985) 193) [Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; gilt fillet border; five raised bands; spine gilt ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Contes moraux de Gessner".
Makers and roles
Salomon Gessner (Zurich 1730-1788) Denis Diderot (1713-1784)