Shelfmark
Gi.7.32
Author
Title
Le Blason de France, ou Notes curieuses sur l'édit concernant la police des armoiries. Dedie au Roy. [par T. Cadot]
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Charles de Sercy ... Pierre Auboüyn .. Estienne Michallet ... Michel Brunet ... ., MDC.XCVII. [1697]
Physical description
[18], 174, [190] p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Signatures: ã⁸ ē¹ A-L⁸ a-h⁴ ²A-²G⁸ H⁶ + 1 leaf.
Note
Includes head- and tail-pieces; printed marginalia.
Note
Engraved frontispiece is signed "Sariter Inv.", "le Pautre fecit".
Note
Final leaf contains errata.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Richard Brinsley Sheridan on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of George Matthew Bayliss with motto "non nobis tantum nati" on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms. note on front pastedown: "Marquis 1753".
Provenance
Ms. note on front flyleaf: "Purchased at the sale of M. de Marechal Sebastiani's Boots at Paris. March 1852".
Binding
?18th/19th-century mottled calfskin over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt roll on board edges (now mostly faded). Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets and titling over black label ("Blason de France"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.6.1.
Subject
Heraldry France Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Sercy, Charles de, 1623 - 1700? bookseller.
Added entry--name
Auboüyn, Pierre, ? - -1712 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Michallet, Estienne, 1630? - 1699 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Brunet, Michel, active 1688 - 1700 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Le Pautre, Jean, 1618 - 1682 engraver.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751 - 1816 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bayliss, Gerald Matthew former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B51286