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Memoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Valois. Interspersed with interesting anecdotes. To which is added, a tour through the western, southern, and interior provinces of Francee, in a series of letters. By NathL. Wraxall, Junr. ... In two volumes. ...
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WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel William (1751--1831)
Memoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Valois. Interspersed with interesting anecdotes. To which is added, a tour through the western, southern, and interior provinces of Francee, in a series of letters. By NathL. Wraxall, Junr. ... In two volumes. ...
London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777.
2 vols ; 20.8 cm. (8º)
I: xii, 396 p.
II: vi, 414 p.
After publishing this and other works of travel and historical anecdotes, Wraxhall gained notoriety in 1815 with the publication of his scurrilous Historical memoirs of my own time, leading to a brief imprisonment for libel. ESTC t83849.
Copy Notes The Soane copy as described in the above collation lacks the leaf of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. II recorded in ESTC. Bought from Thomas Boone for 14s., 16 July 1807. (Spiers Box).
Binding C18th mottled calf, spines with gilt-tooled musical emblems and sunburst, red and green morocco spine-labels.
Reference Number 681
Memoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Valois. Interspersed with interesting anecdotes. To which is added, a tour through the western, southern, and interior provinces of Francee, in a series of letters. By NathL. Wraxall, Junr. ... In two volumes. ...
London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777.
2 vols ; 20.8 cm. (8º)
I: xii, 396 p.
II: vi, 414 p.
After publishing this and other works of travel and historical anecdotes, Wraxhall gained notoriety in 1815 with the publication of his scurrilous Historical memoirs of my own time, leading to a brief imprisonment for libel. ESTC t83849.
Copy Notes The Soane copy as described in the above collation lacks the leaf of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. II recorded in ESTC. Bought from Thomas Boone for 14s., 16 July 1807. (Spiers Box).
Binding C18th mottled calf, spines with gilt-tooled musical emblems and sunburst, red and green morocco spine-labels.
Reference Number 681