The present state of the court of France and city of Paris : in a letter from Monsieur M*** to the Honourable Matthew Prior, Esq., one of the commissioners of Her Majesty's customs
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Type of record: Book
Title: The present state of the court of France and city of Paris : in a letter from Monsieur M*** to the Honourable Matthew Prior, Esq., one of the commissioners of Her Majesty's customs
Classmark: BC Trv/M
Creator(s): M, Monsieur (fl.1712)
Additional creator(s): Mesnager, Nicolas (1658-1714) (Other); Prior, Matthew (1664-1721) (Other); Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731) (Other)
Related people: Mesnager, Nicolas; Prior, Matthew; Defoe, Daniel
Publisher: Printed for E. Curll
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1712
Language: English
Size and medium: [2], 80 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279729
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001045069705181
Description
Attributed doubtfully to Nicolas Mesnager by Morgan, who adds "possibly by Defoe."
"Some further remarks upon the French, their authors, preachers, &c., by a French gentleman": p. 59-80.
Page 1 is headed "The present state of the court of France, and city of Paris, &c."
Also issued by Curll, n.d. [B.M.:1725?], with anonymous title "A new description of Paris: or, The present state of the French nation...In a letter from a gentleman at Paris to his friend in London." Conjugate with that title-leaf is an unsigned first leaf with similar half-title on recto and booklist of eight books on verso.
Indexed in: Rothschild 1693.
Indexed in: References: Kress Lib : 2801.
Indexed in: References: ESTC : T062156.
Indexed in: References: Morgan : 2:326.
Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 4859.5.
Additional description
Foliated 385-424 in an 18th century hand. With bookplate of Henry J. B. Clements
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