Lettres nouvelles de Madame de Sevigné.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696)
Category
Books
Date
1778
Materials
Place of origin
Maestricht
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3191796
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. ;. 12mo. Former shelfmark on Ickworth book label "17.a.1". Imperfect: wanting all but v.3. Wanting free front endpaper and [possibly] half-title. Titlepage rebacked and pasted onto a stub. Provenance: inscribed on pastedown in pencil: "Halbouche Halbouche. No. 40 C[-]y [?] Alley [?]". Address inked over and " No 20 Sidneys Alley Leicester Square" added underneath. $zBinding: eighteenth-century half calf sewn onto five boards; marbled paper over boards. Red spine labels, gold-lettered "Lettres de Sevigne".
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696) , author