Letters concerning the English nation
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
Category
Books
Date
1733
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160514
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 253, [19] p. ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: O.2.18. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Printed shelfmark label beneath bookplate: Case "G" [in MS.] Shelf "2" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge style panelled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges. Rebacked in calf; spine with gilt title label, and nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) John Lockman (1698-1771)