The history of Charles XII. King of Sweden. By Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French.
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
Category
Books
Date
1732
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217161
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition, corrected. xi,[1],371,[1]p., [2] leaves of plates : port., fold. map ; 8vo. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case N. Shelf 1. Provenance: inscribed on endpaper: Thomas Legh Esq [and on titlepage] M: Legh. 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). Twentieth century pictorial bookplate: T.H. Ellison. Inscribed: NT owned. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet border; rebacked; on five raised bands; gilt lettered red spine label. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine.
Makers and roles
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)