Recollections of the revolution and the empire : from the French of the "Journal d'une femme de cinquante ans," / by La marquise de La Tour du Pin ; edited and translated by Walter Geer.
Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770-1853)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249914
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxii, 422 p., [15] leaves of plates : ports. ; 25 cm. Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB." [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's purple cloth; single blind fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece: laurel wreath; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770-1853), author Walter Geer (1857-1937), translator