The Revolutionary Plutarch: Exhibiting the most distinguished characters, literary, military, and political in the recent annals of the French Republic. The greater part from the original information of a gentleman resident at Paris.

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  • London: John Murray, 1805
By [GOLDSMITH, Lewis?]
London: John Murray, 1805. Book. 3 vols, 8vo. Original blue paper boards, paper spine. Pp. xvi, 396; xi, (1), 420; iv, 488; uncut. Stipple engraved frontis. port. in each volume, folding facsimile; half-title in vols. 1 & 3. Contemp. manuscript titles on spine, with ownership signature of William Frederick Vernon Graham. Paper split along front hinges of vols. 1 & 2. Moderate wear and foxing; an excellent set in original state. With the bookplates of William Frederick Vernon. Third edition of this anti-Napoleonic collection, "corrected and enlarged, with a sketch of the Royalist War of La Vendée, and some new lives of persons whom the ambition, intrigue, tyranny and ferocity of Napoleon Buonaparte have called into notice." - preface. The work is attributed to Goldsmith by Halkett & Laing. An attractive set, in a cloth slip case (spine label chipped with partial loss of a word.).

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Title

The Revolutionary Plutarch: Exhibiting the most distinguished characters, literary, military, and political in the recent annals of the French Republic. The greater part from the original information of a gentleman resident at Paris.

Author

[GOLDSMITH, Lewis?]

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Publisher

John Murray: London

Date

1805


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