Les nouvelles de Marguerite, Reine de Navarre.
Queen Marguerite (de Valois) Queen of France (1553-1615)
Category
Books
Date
1780 - 1781
Materials
Place of origin
Berne
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237451.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 3, plates. 8vo. Accession no. 4245.3. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: book-label of B. Mittelholzer; I. Techener (sale 1880, lot 433); book-label of H. Bordes; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.52. Binding: Bernese binding of 1781 in red morocco gilt; fillet edges to covers with emblem at centre of an open book with ruler and quills, the book inscribed "Nemo religione nulla felix est". Green lettering-piece 'Heptameron/ François' with wavy line above and below, floral panels and, across tail, a solid pallet engraved 'G. Freudenberger'. Orange headbands, gilt edges, stone marbled endleaves. Bound by Gabriel Freudenberger of Berne (d.1806), brother of the artist Sigismund Freudenberger.
Makers and roles
Queen Marguerite (de Valois) Queen of France (1553-1615) Queen Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre (1492-1549)