Author: VILLETTE (Charles Louis de):
Title: Essay on the Happiness of the Life to Come.
Description: Bath, Printed by R. Cruttwell; and sold by T. Cadell..., and C. Dilly..., 1793. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, , 185 [186 blank], including half-title, contemporary polished calf, red morocco label; spine very slightly dried, upper joints very slightly cracked, but a very good copy. With the autograph "P. Haggitt 1799" at the top of the title-page. This translation of Villette's Essai sur la felicite de la vie a-venir is attributed in various library catalogues to a "Miss Hunt." The translation was reprinted in 1794 (twice) and 1800. ESTC T104362 locates copies in the BL, the Bodleian, Merton College, Oxford; California Berkeley, and Bridwell Library, SMU.

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