Shelfmark
Go.3.02
Author
Title
Essai géographique sur les Isles Britanniques..
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : De l'imprimerie de Didot., M. DCC. LVII. [1757]
Physical description
[10], 471 p. : ill. (some col.) , maps (some folded) ; 25 cm.
Note
Title vignette with depiction of Cambridge; head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Added t.p., engr. : Essai géographique sur les Isles Britanniques contenant une description de l'Angleterre, l'Ecosse, et l'Irlande, tant pour la navigation des costes que pour la conoissance de l'interieur du Païs ... .
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, with ex dono of Major General Villiers Hatton, on front flyleaf recto.
Binding
18th-century brown "cat-paw" sprinkled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind triple fillets to form a border; double gilt fillets on board-edges; gilt tools on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt tools, fillets, and titling over red label ("Essai geograph"). Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled paper (pastedowns and facing flyleaves); two additional flyleaves of undecorated paper at the upper end of the textblock and one at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's pencil notes on front flyleaf verso.
Subject
Pilot guides Great Britain.
Subject
Great Britain Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
Great Britain Distances, etc.
Added entry--name
Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730 - 1809 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Didot, François, 1689 - 1757 printer.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B50925