Shelfmark
Go.9.07
Author
Title
Memoirs of the abbé Edgeworth; containing his narrative of the last hours of Louis XVI [ed.] by C.S. Edgeworth.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Rowland Hunter, successor J. Johnson, 72, St. Paul's church-yard., 1815..
Physical description
iv, 223, [1] : fronts. ; 19 cm.
Note
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.
Note
Colophon on verso of p. 223: J. M. Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, dated April 1898, with ex dono of Major W. J. Myers on front pastedown.
Binding
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.
Subject
Louis, 1754 - 1793 XVI, King of France,
Added entry--name
Edgeworth, C. Sneyd editor.
Added entry--name
Hunter, Rowland printer.
Added entry--name
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51103