L'etat present de la Grande Bretagne et de l'Irlande sous le regne de George II : Avec une description des etats que la Grande-Bretagne possede en Amerique, en Afrique et dans la Mediterranée, et des listes exactes des pairs du roiaume, du Conseil privé, des secretaireries, de la Societé Roiale, &c. Traduit de l'anglois (v.2)
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Title: L'etat present de la Grande Bretagne et de l'Irlande sous le regne de George II : Avec une description des etats que la Grande-Bretagne possede en Amerique, en Afrique et dans la Mediterranée, et des listes exactes des pairs du roiaume, du Conseil privé, des secretaireries, de la Societé Roiale, &c. Traduit de l'anglois (v.2)
Other titles: Present state of Great Britain
Classmark: Anglo-French 3 1728/MIE
Creator(s): Miege, Guy (1644-1718?)
Additional creator(s): Chamberlayne, Edward (1616-1703) (Other)
Related people: Chamberlayne, Edward
Publisher: Chez Henri Scheurleer
Publication city: A La Haye
Date(s): 1728
Language: French
Size and medium: 3 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/242721
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014148619705181
Description
Vol.1: page 147 wrongly numbered 149; vol.3: page 159 and 216 wrongly numbered 157 and 116.
With additional signatures H-I, I*-I*6 in volume 3, from which the original signatures have been removed.
Anonymous work previously published: L'etat present de la Grande-Bretagne sous le regne de George I. Amsterdam : chez les Wetsteins, 1723. With new title-pages; appears to be the same sheets as the 1723 edition except for the preliminaries in v. 1, pages 87 in v. 2, and pages 118-155, [1] and the folded leaves of plates in v. 3; based on: The present state of Great Britain / Guy Miege., itself a work alleged to be a plagiarism of: Angliae notitia, or The present state of England / Edward Chamberlayne. [London, 1669-1671].
Pagination: v. 1, [26], 77, 76-157, 156-267, 246-327, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2, [2], 359, [1] p.; v. 3, [2], 155, [1], 129-116 [i.e. 216], [30] p., [2] folded leaves of plates.
Vol.1: Errata statement: leaf 8 verso.
Anonymous, by Guy Miège.
Includes index.
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