Les poesies de M. de Malherbe; avec les observations de Monsieur Menage.
François de Malherbe (1555 – 1628)
Category
Books
Date
1666
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222694
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 596, [20] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7536. Water staining on front and rear leaves. Worm damage on rear leaves Eee2 through to rear board. Provenance: manuscript capital letter at head of front fly-leaf: "D". Manuscript number (price?) in pencil on front pastedown: "2-10. 1725". Manuscript code symbols on rear pastedown. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red and brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
François de Malherbe (1555 – 1628), author Antoine Godeau (1605-1672) Bishop of Grasse Giles Ménage (1613-1692)