Ill[ustrissi]mo. D.D. Rogerio Du Plesseis d[omi]no. de Liancourt Marchioni de Montfort, Comiti de la Rocheguion e.a. vtriusque ordinis Christianissimae maiestatis equiti regiis a cubiculis primario. Heroi virtutum et magnarum artium eximio cultori. Aurorum pace belloque praestantium et qeui melioris decora referenti. Segmenta nobilium signorum e[t] statuaru[m], quae temporis dentem inuidium euasere vrbis aeternae ruinis erepta typis aeneis ab se commissa perpetuae uenerationis monumentum. Franciscus Perrier. D.D.D.
François Perrier (1590-1656)
Category
Books
Date
1638
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3220346
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1] leaf, 100 leaves of plates (8 folded), [2] leaves : all ill. (engraving) ; fol. Running number: 7461. State 1: title leaf is blank below the date "M.D.C.XXXVIII". Plate 42 mis-bound between 21-22; plates 22-24 bound in wrong order. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 100 plates. NB. Plate 42 is put after 21 & plate 24, 22, 23 are wrong bound in" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript number (price?) on rear pastedown: "16tt" [i.e. 16 livres tournois]. Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on six raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
François Perrier (1590-1656)