Shelfmark
Em.8.15 - Em.8.16
Author
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, 1692 - 1775 Freiherr von,
Uniform title
[Mémoires. English]
Title
The memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz. Being the observations he made in his late travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders. Holland, England, &c. In letters to his friend. ... In two volumes..
Edition
The second edition, with additions.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Daniel Browne, at the Black Swan, without Temple-Bar., M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]
Physical description
2 v. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Translated by Stephen Whatley--ESTC.
Note
In this edition the punctuation after "Flanders" is a full stop, and the imprint has "Black Swan" without a hyphen.
Note
Second volume title page is not the same as the first volume. The second volume has after "Flanders" a comma, and the imprint has "Black-Swan" with a hyphen.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Includes errata: v. 1, final page.
Note
Pagination: xxiii, [1], 431, [21]; 472, [22] p.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T220401
Provenance
Booklabel of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on upper pastedown.
Binding
Mid to late 18th-century light brown calf over pasteboard or millboard. Both covers undecorated; narrow squares, board edges tooled with a blind ornamental roll (faded). Spine slightly rounded, with five raised bands (two false?) tooled aside with single gilt fillets; second panel with spine label (gilt titling over red morocco onlay: "Polnitz' memoirs"), with vol. no in third panel (see additional note below); endband of alternating blue and plain thread. Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers comprised of leaves of plain laid paper (pastedown and two flyleaves).
Binding
Volume numbers tooled in gilt on spine are continuous from these two vols. of this second edition (vols. 1-2) to two vols. of an earlier edition (vols 3-4) at shelfmark Em.8.17 -18. Moreover, these are bound identically; despite comprising a mix of two editions, they evidently were bound to be part of a set by a previous owner.
Subject
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, 1692 - 1775 Freiherr von,
Subject
Europe Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Whatley, Stephen, fl. 1712 - 1741 translator.
Added entry--name
Browne, Daniel, 1647 - 1727 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B50964