Oeuvres du seigneur de Brantome: nouvelle edition, considérablement augmentée, & accompagnée de remarques historiques et critiques. ...
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1530-1614)
Category
Books
Date
1740
Materials
Place of origin
The Hague
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3193871
Summary
Bibliographic description
15 v. : ill., fold. geneal. tables, port. ; 12mo. Running numbers: 532 (vols. 1-8, 13-15), 6474 (vols. 9-12). Imperfect: wanting vols. 3 and 5. Provenance: armorial bookplate in each vol. (except vol. 14), anonymous (not listed in Franks): arms of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793) and his second wife Caroline Conolly (ca. 1755-1817), married in 1770, with Buck and Talbot supporters, and earl's coronet. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled sheepskin; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines with floral stamps, gilt title on brown label and gilt vol. number on on black label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1530-1614), author André Bourdeille, vicomte de Bourdeille (1519-1582), author Jacob Le Duchat (1658-1735), author Jacobus van der Schley (1715-1779), engraver (printmaker)