Author: CATTEAU-CALLEVILLE (Jean-Pierre):
Title: A General View of Sweden: containing, Besides a Geographical Description of the Country, an account of its constitution, religion, civil and criminal laws, population, natural riches, external and internal commerce, finances, money, weights, and measures: Together with The Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants, the present State of the Arts and Sciences in that Kingdom, and the Form of Government as established in 1772. Translated from the French of Mr. Catteau.
Description: London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson..., 1790. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo, 211 x 126 mms., pp. [v][, vi - xx, 410, including half-title, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed); rebacked, with new spine and new end-papers, red leather label; a very good copy. Jean-Pierre Catteau-Calleville (1759 - 1819) published Tableau général de la Suède in French in 1790, and it was translated into English the same year. In a notice of the French edition, the reviewer for The Monthly Review for 1790 remarked that it was an "agreeable and useful work," adding that the author "seems to have bestowed much pains in gaining his information, though sometimes his knowledge appears rather superficial and popular rather than clear and discriminating: on subjects, too, which require plainness and precision, his language is, occasionally, too flowery; but if it is light, it is always pretty, and if he fails to instruct he is sure to amuse."

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