Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great :. Containing the history of the life and reign of that monarch, and his own administration under him. Translated from the French. To which is added, the tryal of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great. In six volumes.
Pierre Mathurin de L'Écluse des Loges (1716-1783)
Category
Books
Date
1763
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222393.6
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol.6, plates : ill., ports.; 12mo. (18cm). Provenance: All vols. inscribed "Cath: Browne" [Catherine Browne (d.1821) of Mellington Hall, firs wife of Sir John Edwards]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered "John Edwards" [Either John Edwards of Plas Machynlleth (d. 1789) or his son Sir John Edwards 1st Bt of Garth, Montgomeryshire. (1770-1850) of Greenfields (Plas Machynlleth), whose daughter by his second wife, Mary Cornelia, m. in 1846 George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry from 1872]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled sheep. Sewn on three cords, five raised bands, gilt tooling on spine. Red and green leather spine labels "Sully's memoirs" with vol. numbers below, lettered in gilt. Vol. 6 is worm damaged with some loss of text.
Makers and roles
Pierre Mathurin de L'Écluse des Loges (1716-1783) Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Barbara Charlotte Ramsay, Mrs Alexander Lennox (1729-1804)