Lettres de Madame de Maintenon ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719, author.

Contributor:

La Beaumelle, Laurent Angliviel de, 1726-1773, editor, publisher.

Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France--Court and courtiers--Early works to 1800.

France.

Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719--Correspondence--Early works to 1800.

Maintenon.

Courts and courtiers.

Penn Provenance:

Monmerqué, L.-J.-N. (Louis-Jean-Nicolas), 1780-1860 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

8 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

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r.be ilun es:& vo*J (3) 1756 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam : Aux depens de l'editeur, MDCCLVI [1756]

Contents:

Tome 1. À diverses personnes, et à m. d'Aubigné, son frere.

t. 2. À m. l'abbé Gobelin.

t. 3. À madame l'abbesse de Gomerfontaine, et aux dames de St. Louis.

t. 4. À m. le cardinal de Noailles.

t. 5. Lettres de madame de Maintenon, a m. le duc de Noailles.

t. 6. Lettres de madame de Maintenon, et de madame de Caylus.

t. 7. Lettres de madame de Maintenon, et de mesdames de Ventadour, de St. Geran, d'Harcourt, de Levy, &c., du merechal de Villeroi, &c.

t. 8. Lettres du clergé de France, à madame de Maintenon.

Notes:

Signatures: volume 1: pi1 A-M¹² N⁶ ; volume 2: pi1 A-M¹² N⁶.

Pagination: volume 1: [2], 300 pages ; volume 2: [2], 300 pages.

Woodcut title vignettes and tail-pieces.

Type ornament factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Not in STCN.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: tomes 1-2 only, bound in one volume.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books.

RBC copy formerly owned by L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, with his dated 19th-century autograph on verso of front free endpaper, and is copiously annotated by him with a folded leaf of his notes pasted to the verso of leaves F11 and M6 of tome 1.

RBC copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to front free endpaper.

RBC copy bound in full contemporary sprinkled calf; gold-tooled cover edges; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-ruled spine panels; title ("MEMOIRES LETTRE DE MAINT") stamped in gold on spine; initials ("DLZ") within a wreath stamped in gold at foot of spine; all edges sprinkled red.

RBC copy: tome 1: leaf K12 torn.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Cited in:

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 44475

Ungherini, A. Manuel de bibliographie biographique et d'iconographie des femmes célèbres, I, 463

OCLC:

777786817