Maximes et réflexions morales, du duc de La Rochefoucauld.
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (1613-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1812
Materials
Place of origin
Parma
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217147
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],xxxix,[1],208 p. ; 23 cm. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case P. Shelf 2. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: nineteenth-century red morocco; double gilt fillet and gilt roll border; gilt tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins; four false bands. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (1613-1680)