Memoirs of the Abbé Edgeworth : containing his narrative of the last hours of Louis XVI
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Type of record: Book
Title: Memoirs of the Abbé Edgeworth : containing his narrative of the last hours of Louis XVI
Classmark: Pencheon Collection EDG
Creator(s): Edgeworth de Firmont, Henry Essex (1745-1807)
Additional creator(s): Edgeworth, C Sneyd (Other); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner)
Related people: Edgeworth de Firmont, Henry Essex, abbé, 1745-1807; Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793; Louis XVII, of France, 1785-1795
Publisher: Printed for Rowland Hunter
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1815
Language: English
Size and medium: iv, 223 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/633913
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012545179705181
Description
On front. portrait: "London. Published May 1, 1815 by R. Hunter, St. Pauls Church Yard"; varies from Lilly copy DC146.E23 M5 1815.
Probably first edition; Allibone I, 542 and Lowndes I, 644 do not describe the frontispiece.
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.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection EDG: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982)
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