The Heptameron of the tales of Margaret, queen of Navarre / translated into English from the authentic text of M. Le Roux de Lincy ; with an essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A. ; also the original seventy-three full-page engravings designed by S. Freudenberg and one hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker.
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre (1492-1549)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256308
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v., 73 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 8vo. Pencil note on front pastedown in vol. 1: "5 vols". Pencil codes on rear pastedown in vol. 1: "N/OO" and "O/S/-". Provenance: 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 white publisher's cloth; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on upper boards; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: fleur-de-lys in circle; spines gilt, lettered direct: 'The Heptameron - Margaret Queen of Navarre - Illustrated by Freudenberg'; gilt top edges; purple ribbon marker in each vol. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre (1492-1549), author Le Roux de Lincy, 1806-1869, editor George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1845-1933), author Sigmund Freudenberger (Bern 1745 - Bern 1801), original artist Balthasar Anton Dunker (1746 - 1807), engraver (printmaker) Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922, translator