Author: HAMILTON (Anthony), Count. WALPOLE (Horace):
Title: Memoires du Comte de Grammont,  Par Monsieur le Comte Antoine Hamilton. Nouvelle Edition,s Augmentée de Notes & d'Eclaircissemens necessaires....
Description: A Londres: Chez J. Dodsley, 1783. 4to, 235 x 175 mms., pp. xxi [xxii - xxiii contents, xxiv blank], 290 [291 - 293 Index, 294 blank, engraved portrait of Grammont as frontispiece, further engraved portraits of Hamilton opposite page [iv], and of Cometesse Grammont opposite page 92, contemporary calf; corner cut from title-page and following page to remove name,, joints cracked and tender, corners worn, top and base of spine chipped. With a contemporary inscription of five lines in French on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper, 19th century autograph "Rebecca Hinds 1822" on title-page. Walpole (1717 - 1797) published this first at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1772, printing only 100 copies; this Dodsley imprint is the second edition and Walpole wrote an introduction for it. Hazen: Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, no. 18; no. 54 in his bibliography of Walpole.

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