Of wisdom. Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
Pierre Charron (1541-1603)
Category
Books
Date
1707
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3218120
Summary
Bibliographic description
The secon edition, corrected. 2v. : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Accompanied by vol. 2 (Books 2 & 3) in the 1697 edition. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: Case G. Shelf 3. Endpaper inscribed: Antrobus. 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: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; rebacked. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Pierre Charron (1541-1603) George Stanhope (1660-1728)