[Les memoires de Messire Martin du Bellay, Seigneur de Langey.. Contenant le discours de plusieurs choses aduenues au Royaume de France, depuis l'an M. D. XIII. iusques au trespas du Roy François premier, ausquels l'autheur a inseré trois liures, & quelques fragmens des Ogdoades de Messire Guillaume du Bellay, Seigneur de Langey son frere : Oeuure mis nouuellement en lumiere, & presenté au Roy par Messire René du Bellay, Cheualier de l'Ordre de Sa Majesté, Baron de la Lande, heritier l'iciluy Messire Martin du Bellay]
Guillaume Du Bellay (1491-1543)
Category
Books
Date
1586
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3163627
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10],528,[7] leaves;. 8vo. Imperfect: wants title page, all before f.191 and final 7 leaves (table): blank endpaper pasted onto Vv8 verso to hide text of first page of table. Cropped removing some printed marginal notes. Multiple passages marked with manuscript asterisks. Provenance: Library bookplate: "Chiswick Bookcase - Shelf -" [Chiswick House, London]. Gilt-stamped ducal coronet on spine above a swash D, with smaller initials WS [i.e. William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858)] Marked 'duplicate' [i.e. Chatsworth duplicate] and '1749' Binding: eighteenth-century full tree calf; marbled endpapers; rebacked in nineteenth-century green morocco; red spine label "Memoires de Du Bellay"
Makers and roles
Guillaume Du Bellay (1491-1543) Martin Du Bellay, sieur de Langey (d.1559) René Du Bellay, Baron de La Lande (d.1606)