Private memoirs relative to the last year of the reign of Lewis the Sixteenth, late king of France / by Ant. Fr. Bertrand de Moleville ... ; translated from the original manuscript of the author, which has never been published ; with five portraits, from original pictures of the royal family of France.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertrand-de-Molleville, Ant.-Fr. (Antoine-François), 1744-1818.

Contributor:

Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824.

Strahan, Andrew, -1831, Bookseller.

Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802, Bookseller.

Davies, William, -1820, Bookseller.

Vaux, George, 1908-1996., Former owner.

Gaston, William., Former owner.

Gaston, Kate., Former owner.

Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, Engraver.

Vaux Bequest., Donor.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la fin du règne de Louis XVI, roi de France. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.

Louis.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Physical Description:

3 v. : ports. ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Binder's title: Bertrand's memoirs

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, 1797.

Notes:

Extracted from the ms. which formed the basis of the author's "Annals of the French Revolution," published London, 1800-02. Cf. Preliminary note to the Annals, v. 1, v. [i.e. p.?] 5.

Translated and arranged by R.C. Dallas. French version published simultaneously, by the same publishers. Cf. Tourneux, M. Bib. de l'hist. de Paris pendant 1a Révolution française, I, p. 68, no. 338.

Errata: v. 1-3, p. [1] of second group.

Vol. 1: xi, [1], 418 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: ix, [1], 418 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: vii, [1], 446 p., [2] leaves of plates.

"The ports. are to be placed as follows: Louis XVI, to face the t.p. of vol. I, the Queen, to face the t.p. of vol. II, Louis XVII, to face p. 42 of vol. II, Princess Elizabeth, to face the t.p. of vol. III, Madame Royale, to face p. 42 of vol. III"--P. III of vol. 1.

5 ports. are engraved by Agar.

Binding: Publisher's full leather, spine with black label, with gilt lettering and design.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy is bequest of George Vaux, 1996.

Athenaeum copy: The Vaux bequest of 1996 consists of books from the library of the prominent Philadelphia Quaker family extablished in America by James Vaux (1748-1812), who emigrated in 1771. Most of the books are inscribed by George Vaux VII (1779-1836), George Vaux VIII (1832-1915), George Vaux IX (1863-1927), and the donor George Vaux (1908-1996).

Athenaeum copy: Fly leaf [3] of vol. I inscribed as: Wm. Gaston.

Athenaeum copy: Front pastedown of vol. I inscribed as Kate Gaston, 1844.

Athenaeum copy: Bookplates in all 3 vols. read as William Gaston, Newbern, N.C., Sapere aude.

Cited in:

BM, v. 16, column 502;

ESTC T077146.

Tourneux, M. Paris pendant la Révolution française, I, 338