Augustae regiæque Sabaudæ domus arbor gentilitia . ... Victori Amedeo II. Sabaudiæ duci ... ab authore Francisco Maria Ferrerro [sic] a Labriano d.d.d.
Francesco Maria Ferrero di Lavriano
Category
Books
Date
1702
Materials
Place of origin
Turin
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3160639
Summary
Bibliographic description
208 p., frontis., 35 plates : ill., ports. ; fol. Additional final errata leaf (different paper stock). Lacks two (final?) plates. Plate 33 (Victor Amadeus II) inserted between pp. 198-99. Pencil “377” on front pastedown. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled sheep over boards on six raised cords, gilt spine tooling, brown spine label, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Francesco Maria Ferrero di Lavriano, author Georges Tasniere (1632-1704), engraver (printmaker)