A king's lessons in statecraft: Louis XIV letters to his heirs with introduction and notes by Jean Longnon; translated by Herbert Wilson.
King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221927
Summary
Bibliographic description
189, [1] p. :. ill. front. (port) ;. 8vo (23 cm). Provenance: Twentieth-century monogram bookplate with initial ‘E' against a rose inside a marquess's coronet and a framed by a double L [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: untrimmed in twentieth century publisher's cross-hatched full purple cloth, upper cover lettered and decorated blind, spine lettered gilt (spine sunned).
Makers and roles
King Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715) Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866 - 1940) Longnon, Jean Herbert Wilson