La tulipe noire /
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
Livorno
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3186401
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 16 cm. Two volumes bound in one. Provenance: nineteenth-century Anson bookplate with motto ‘Nil desperandum’ and Viscount’s coronet (though seven pearls visible) [i.e. Thomas Anson, created Viscount Anson & Baron Soberton, 1806 (1767-1818) or his son, Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson (1795-1854), created Earl of Lichfield, 1831]. Binding: nineteenth-century half vellum, with marbled paper boards; gilt tooled spine; gold lettered leather spine label. (Marbled paper on upper cover torn and peeling; lying on original[?] blue cloth sides.
Makers and roles
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)