Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon / publiés par MM. Chéruel et Ad. Regnier fils, et collationnés de nouveau pour cette édition sur le manuscrit autographe, avec une notice de M. Sainte-Beuve.
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1873 - 1887
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3248141
Summary
Bibliographic description
19v. ; 19cm (8vo). Mixed set, with vols.8-12, 2nd ed. Rear endpaper pencil page references, annotation, and corresponding text marking. Provenance: inscribed "Stamford, Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]; v.4 also inscribed "Mrs. Vaughan Deanery Llandaff" [i.e. Catherine Maria Vaughan, née Stanley (d.1899)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half green calf, with marbled paper on boards; gilt lettered spine. Vol. 8 bound separately: half green imitation morocco (scuffed & worn), with a different marbled paper to rest of set.
Makers and roles
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755) Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (1809-1891) Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) Regnier, Louis Adolphe