Testament politique
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)
Category
Books
Date
1764
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3150459.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2. . 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
Makers and roles
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)