Lettres de Madame de Sévigné, à sa fille et à ses amis;
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 3193306
Summary
Bibliographic description
8v., plate. ill.., port... 8vo. Provenance: Nineteenth-century garter bookplate: Charles Langton Massingberd [i.e. Charles Langton Massingberd (1815-1887)]. Inscribed in ink: Robert Langford / March 8th 1817’; with presentation inscription in pencil [Robert Langford (d.1830), father of Harriet Ann Langford (1823-1855), 1st wife of Charles Langton Massingberd]. Binding: Gold-decorated calf, fleur-de-lys stamps, red spine-labels, gold-lettered. – Boards mostly detached, spines damaged. – Ticket of Bossange & Masson / Foreign Booksellers / 100 New Bond St. / & 14 Great Marlborough St. / London’. – Ticket of ‘Courteval, / Relieur, / rue des Carmes, No. 5’
Makers and roles
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Philippe-Antoine Grouvelle (1757-1806)