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Jean Boivin de Villeneuve (1663-1726)
Category
Books
Date
1711
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3174106
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 126, [2] p., [1] folded leaf plates : port. ; 4to. Running number: 7720. Water-staining at foot of leaves and up into gutter margin throughout. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "δ½." [i.e. delta½ = Greek number 4½]. Manuscript book number or inventory code in red crayon or pencil on rear free endpaper: "A1044". Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; water damage at foot on covers; sewn on five raised bands; single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges and on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red textblock edges. Bouquet pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Jean Boivin de Villeneuve (1663-1726)