Les femmes bibliophiles; catalogue of a collection of books bound by famous binders for royal and distinguished ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie (1919)
J. Pearson & Co · London : J. Pearson & Co. · leaf 37
iend Nicholas Ferrar, he adopted a religious life., and was ordained priest in 1630.He died in 1633. He left several works, the chief in prose being A Priest to the Temple,first published in his Remains in 1652. The first edition of the Temple is a bookof extraordinary rarity, as only a few copies… … 10 LES FEMMES BIBLIOPHILES others have since been found. The first published edition appeared in 1633, and a secondfollowed it in the same year. The third edition came out in 1634, the fourth in 1635,a fifth in 1638, and the present is the sixth. It has been stated that within a few yearsafter the…
Bookbinding · Books · Armorial bindings · Women book collectors
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
