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Bernard de Montfaucon : Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys,
[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grece par le Chev.er P.O. Brondsted de l'Ile de Ceos'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine Print: Book
Bernard de Montfaucon : Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys
[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into inside back cover with some notes eg "'ong gloves 2-16'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Erskine Print: Book
Bernard de Montfaucon : French Antiquities
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751: 'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would you be if you had been turning over with me five great folios of Montfaucon's French Antiquities, where warriors, tyrants, queens, and favourites, have past before my eyes in a quick succession, of whose pomp, power, and bustle, nothing now remains but quiet Gothic monuments, vile prints, and the records of still viler actions [...] [later comments, in same letter] Let me do justice to human nature and French history; my last night's reading afforded some instances of most charming generosity [...] and of real goodness.'
