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Michel Ange de La Chausse (1660-1724)
Category
Books
Date
1690
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3221526
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 127, [17] p., [1], 55, 42, 25, 15, 17, 6 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; fol. Mould and water staining throughout, cockled leaves throughout; front and rear endpapers in bad condition (flaking and with insect damage). Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on front pastedown: "Q7" (crossed out) and "P7". Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on rear pastedown: "Q8" (crossed out). Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Michel Ange de La Chausse (1660-1724) Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) Billy, Nicoló Gimignani, Ludovico Carlo Maratta (Camerano 1625 – Rome 1713) Arnold van Westerhout (1651 - 1725)