Testament politique
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)
Category
Books
Date
1764
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3150459
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . port.. . 8vo. Provenance: On flyleaf: ms. copy of letter dated ‘22. 8bre 1764 aux delices pres de Geneve’, annotated in another seventeenth-century hand: ‘Copy of Voltaire’s letter to the duchess Dowager D’Aiguillon, who sent him one of these Books with a letter to him’. Ms. inscription: M: Hervey given me by the Duchess dowager D’Aiguillon [i.e. Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey (1696-1768)]. Armorial bookplate: Mary Lady Hervey [i.e. Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey (1696-1768)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full red morocco over boards; gilt fillets and inner border; spine gilt; brown leather spine labels; sewn on five raised bands; paper edges gilt
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)