The spirit of laws
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1750
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3150209
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ; 8vo. Earlier shelfmark label: Case L Shelf 3 [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate on rear pastedown: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: calf; double gilt fillets; rebacked; gilt ram’s head stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) Thomas Nugent (1700-1772)