Ornatissimi cuiusdam viri, de rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Eluidium, epistola.
Guy du Faur, seigneur de Pybrac (1529-1584)
Category
Books
Date
1573
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3215766
Summary
Bibliographic description
47, [1] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7202. Water-staining at head of leaves and cockling throughout. Provenance: armorial binding of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, Comte d’Hoym), book collector and ambassador in Paris of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Lot 3804 in Hoym library sale catalogue 'Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym ...' (Paris, 1738). Bought by Sir Richard Ellys for 5 livres 10 sous according to his priced copy of the sale catalogue. Manuscript initial on recto of front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on verso of front fly-leaf facing title page: "Ornatissimi" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry for anonymous works, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript codes in sixteenth or seventeenth-century[?] hand at head of title page: "ad. Tomum. X. 1. pav." and (partially cropped) "8805". Manuscript price in pencil on recto of rear free endpaper: "5lt-10s" [i.e. 5 livres 10 sous]. Binding: French, eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto five supports; double and single gilt fillet border with small cornerpiece stamps; gilt coat of arms of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) on both covers (Boyet and Du Seuil were his binders); single gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with floral and other stamps in fillet and roll panels; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. All edges gilt. Placard-style marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Guy du Faur, seigneur de Pybrac (1529-1584) Camerarius, Joachim