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Oeuvres posthumes de Frédéric II, roi de Prusse.

Accession number
PML 142112-26
Creator
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.
Published
A Berlin : Voss et fils et Decker et fils, 1788.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
With frontispiece portrait in v. 1 of Frederick II, engraving executed by D. Berger after J.C. Frisch.
No more published in this edition. cf. Quérard, La France littéraire.
Library copy bound as tomes V-XIX of a 25 volume collector's set (PML 142108-32); with Oeuvres de Frédéric II, roi de Prusse (PML 142108 -11) comprising tomes I-IV, and Supplément aux Oeuvres posthumes de Fréderic II, roi de Prusse (PML 142127-32) comprising tomes XX-XXV.
Library copy missing engraved frontispiece portrait; plate has evidently been relocated to v. 1 of Oeuvres de Frédéric II, roi de Prusse (see PML 142108 -11).
Description
15 v., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm
Provenance
Inscription in a contemporary hand at head of t.p. in v. 1 of collector's set (PML 14208): Given to R.B. Sheridan Esq. by Frederica Duchess of York; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco, tooled in gilt; possibly by Charles Hering.
Classification
Department