Accession number
PML 145991
Creator
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646-1720.
Published
London : Printed for S. and E. Harding, [1794]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
A revised edition of Abel Boyer's translation.
Illustrated with engraved t.p. vignette and 76 stipple engraved portraits.
Plates dated 1792-3, with some of the plates bearing publication dates as late as Dec. 2 ,1793; they additionally appeared in a French edition published in London by James Edwards in 1793.
This English translation was probably not published until 1794. Plates engraved from drawings by Silvester Harding, who copied the designs from various sources.
With final index and "Directions for placing the prints" at end.
Illustrated with engraved t.p. vignette and 76 stipple engraved portraits.
Plates dated 1792-3, with some of the plates bearing publication dates as late as Dec. 2 ,1793; they additionally appeared in a French edition published in London by James Edwards in 1793.
This English translation was probably not published until 1794. Plates engraved from drawings by Silvester Harding, who copied the designs from various sources.
With final index and "Directions for placing the prints" at end.
Description
iii, 363, lxxxiv p., [76] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of George Chetwynd; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt by L. Staggemeier, with his ticket.
Classification
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