Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1784? (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 volume (40 x 25 cm), containing 29 leaves. Folios 2–27 are documents bound into the book; f. 1 is a leaf of a later date with a print pasted on the verso. Half-bound in red leather and red cloth.
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Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
Despite the title on the spine, the main item in the book is not an original letter of Marat’s but a transcript made by or for Roume de Saint Laurent. The contents were acquired by Lord Houghton before 1863 or 1864, when they were printed by the Philobiblon Society. The binder’s stamp of White, 23 Pall Mall, is on the back of the front free endpaper. The armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, is pasted inside the volume and his heraldic ‘garb’ is stamped on the front.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
On the spine is stamped ‘Lettre Originale de Marat 1783.’
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Foliated 1–27, with one unnumbered flyleaf at the front and another at the back.
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Conditions d’accès
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- français
Script of material
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Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Finding aids
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Printed in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, vol. viii (1863–4).
See also:
A. Birembaut, ‘Une lettre inédite de Marat à Roume’, Annales historiques de la Révolution française, vol. xxxix (1967), pp. 395–9
Jean-Paul Marat, Marat avant 1789, ed. J. De Cock (2003)