Lettres écrites à un provincial /. par Blaise Pascal. Précédées d'un Éloge de Pascal / par M. Bordas Demoulin ; et suivies d'un essai sur les provinciales et le style de Pascal, par François de Neufchateau.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3259848
Summary
Bibliographic description
lxiv, 395 p. :. front (port) ;. 18 cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Provenance: ownership inscription on half-title in black ink: 'Mary S. Oates Sept 1853' [= 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 'Lettres de Pascal' lettered in gold.
Makers and roles
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Bordas-Demoulin, Jean Baptiste, 1798-1859 François de Neufchâteau, Nicolas Louis, comte, 1750-1828