The works of Monsieur de La Bruyère. In two volumes. Containing, I. The moral characters of Theophrastus. II. The characters, or, The manners of the present age. III. M. Bruyere's speech upon his admission into the French Academy. IV. An account of the life and writings of M. Bruyere. By Monsieur Coste. ... The sixth edition, revis'd by the Paris edition: with an original chapter, Of the manner of living with great men: written after the method of M. Bruyere, by N. Rowe, Esq;.
Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222689
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., port. ; 8vo. Running number: 7535. Provenance: manuscript eighteenth-century shelfmark on front pastedown: Z.21-22. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; single gilt fillet border; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spines; gilt title on brown leather label and vol. number on spines. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jean de La Bruyère (1645 - 1696), author Theophrastus (c.372-287 BC), author Pierre Coste (1668-1747), author Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718), author Michael Vandergucht (Antwerp 1660 – London 1725), engraver (printmaker)