Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congrégations séculières de l'un & de l’autre sexe, qui ont esté establies jusque'à present; … Tome premier …
Pierre Hélyot (1660-1716)
Category
Books
Date
1714
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3162285
Summary
Bibliographic description
8t., plates. ill., plates, ports. 26cm Provenance: Not indigenous. Meade Collection. Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Ink stamp: “Frankleigh House Library”. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Rev. The Honble Sidney Meade. – Inscribed: ‘Fine & Rare Copy’ and ‘all plates in beautiful order …; Binding: Sprinkled calf, gold-decorated spines, red spine-labels, gold-lettered. – Bookseller’s printed catalogue entry attached to vol. 1 at: ‘6l.6s/’ This is the best edition, with fine impressions of the numerous plates
Makers and roles
Pierre Hélyot (1660-1716) Maximilien Bullot (d.1748)