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L'Angleterre en miniature, ou nouveau coup-d'oeil intéressant, pittoresque, politique et caracteristique sur l'Angleterre, son gouvernement, ses habitants et leurs moeurs, etc.
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris, chez Batilliot fils, Librairie, rue du Foin-St.-Jacques, 1803 x, 287 printed pages. Half title slightly creased, soiled and worn at the edges. Pages 279 and 283 are missing the top corners, not affecting the text. Marginal old stain on last few leaves, not affecting the text. This is a brutal character assasination of the English, disdaining their customs and habits and accusing them of being suicidal depressives. Fine English gentlemen were alleged, by this author, to have been across to France like a troop of badly behaved monkeys, taking their cooks, wigmakers and chambermaids with them, just to buy up the all the fashionable objects there. It is full of similar insulting but possibly accurate descriptions. German charcoal marbled endpapers. 17 x 10.5 cm. Bound in continental quarter calf, spine in blind tooled compartments with double gilt rules, gilt lettering and simple gilt tooling. Both boards are covered in attractive and unusual variant on reverse combed marbled paper (possibly of German execution). Corners and lower back hinge slightly worn. A second edition was published in 1804 that is equally uncommon. COPAC lists a sole copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. WORLDCAT lists 3 copies in Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munchen, & Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universität Berlin. This is an extremely uncommon and very attractively bound volume of a presumanbly French anonymous author's idiosyncratic & sour view of the English, published just a few years after the French revolution.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4252
- Title
- L'Angleterre en miniature, ou nouveau coup-d'oeil intéressant, pittoresque, politique et caracteristique sur l'Angleterre, son gouvernement, ses habitants et leurs moeurs, etc.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Paris, chez Batilliot fils, Librairie, rue du Foin-St.-Jacques
- Date Published
- 1803
- Keywords
- AN XI, LONDRES, MARBLED BOARDS, ENDPAPERS
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Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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About the Seller
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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London, London
About Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
My online bookselling is Camden Lock books. I own Camden Lock Books & list books that are uncommon, in demand and may be hard to find.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
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You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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