Histoire de l'imprimerie et de la librairie, où l'on voit son origine & son progrés, jusqu'en 1689. Divisée en deux livres.
Jean de La Caille (d.1720)
Category
Books
Date
1689
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3225244
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 322, [26] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7718. Ephemera: folded slip of paper inserted loosely as a bookmark between pp. 58 and 59, containing late seventeenth or eighteenth-century manuscript sums in livres tournois (adding up a bill or purchases of some kind?) on one side, and on the other the statement "voilat lauteur et la largeur des it maqc[?] que il us demonde". Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Eighteenth-century manuscript book/inventory number on front pastedown: "No. 89". Manuscript price[?] on rear pastedown: "4lt.10-.". Binding: late seventeenth-century full sheepskin (rubbed, surface torn in places, water damage at foot of covers); sewn on four cords with 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
Jean de La Caille (d.1720), author