Author: FLEURY (Claude). CORDELL (Rev. Charles):
Title: The Manners of the Israelites Wherein is seen the Model of a plain and honest Policy for the Government of States, And A Reformation of Manners. Translated from the French of the judicious and learned Abbé Fleury. By the Rev. Charles Cordell, Correspondent Member of the Royal Society of Scotch Antiquaries.
Description: Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson; and sold by P. Keating, No. 4, Air-Street, Piccadilly, London; and by the booksellers in the country..., 1786. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 12mo (in 6s), 152 x 84 mms., pp. vi [vii blank, viii Approbation], 210 [211 - 212 Contents], errata slip pasted to verso of title-page, newly rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, red leather label. A very good copy. Fleury (1649 - 1723) published Les Mœurs des Israëlites in 1722, shortly before his death. The first English translation, by Ellis Farnsworth, under the title A Short History of the Israelites. With an Account of their Manners, Customs, Laws, Polity and Religion. A comparison of the two texts suggests that Cordell benefited from the work of Farnsworth. A further version was published in 1805 by Rev. Adam Clarke, Claude Fleury's History of the Ancient Israelites. Cordell (1720 - 1791) was both a Jacobite and Roman Catholic priest. Leo Gooch in ODNB records that "Cordell's later publication of translations from the French of some obscure works prompted Henry Rutter, a fellow missioner in the area, to remark that he had cacoethes scribendi; Rutter also questioned Cordell's wisdom because many unsold copies of the books were left on Cordell's hands (Gooch, Revival). Cordell was influential in the development of the book trade in Newcastle. His scholarly reputation led to an offer of the presidency of the English College at St Omer in 1778 but he declined it." ESTC T119592 locates only two copies in North American libraries, Duke and Florida. There is also a copy in the BL.

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