Le nouveau Paris
Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814)
Category
Books
Date
1800
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 3165089
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v. . 8vo. Imperfect; wanting vols 2, 5. - 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”. Inscribed in ink: ‘Achete a Paris a / la vente des livres / de la Malmaison / le 30 Oct. 1815 / Catherine Pembroke’ [i.e. Catherine Herbert, Countess of Pembroke nee Voronstov (1784-1856)]. With a note on Malmaison by Meade, and on an anecdote of Lord Clanwilliam of August 1815 Binding: Sprinkled calf, gold-framed, lettered ‘Malmaison’, gold-decorated spines, damaged
Makers and roles
Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814)