Go.9.07
Memoirs of the abbé Edgeworth; containing his narrative of the last hours of Louis XVI [ed.] by C.S. Edgeworth.
London: : Printed for Rowland Hunter, successor J. Johnson, 72, St. Paul's church-yard., 1815..
iv, 223, [1] : fronts. ; 19 cm.
Appendix p. [157]-223 includes "An extract from a manuscript in the British Museum": "Extrait d'un collection de portraits, et medaillons de cheveux de Louis XVI.; de la partie de sa famille, renfermée avec lui dans la tour du temple, et des princes de son august race, réunis dans ce moment en Anglé terre. Londres, 1er septembre, 1812. Ecrit et dessiné à la plume, par le Marquis de Sy": p. [159]-185.
Colophon on verso of p. 223: J. M. Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London.
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, dated April 1898, with ex dono of Major W. J. Myers on front pastedown.
19th-century brown calfskin on millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillet to form a border and blind fillets forming a lozenge pattern. Spine flat and damaged, repaired with buckram. Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated wove paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Louis, 1754 - 1793 XVI, King of France,
Edgeworth, C. Sneyd editor.
Hunter, Rowland printer.
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
England London.
eng
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