Pensées
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Category
Books
Date
1860
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3259847
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxvi, 504 p. :. port. ;. 19 cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: ownership inscription in black ink on front flyleaf: 'Mary S Oates' [= Mary Sarah Hibbert Oates (1834-1925), second wife of Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt (1824-1909)] Binding: nineteenth-century half binding with pale brown leather and red marbled paper over boards; red book block edges; blind stamped decoration; marbled endpapers; red leather spine label with 'Pensees de Pascal' lettered in gold.
Makers and roles
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Pierre Nicole (1625-1695)