[FRENCH REVOLUTION] [REIGN OF TERROR] THE ACCUSATION, TRIAL, DEFENCE, SENTENCE, EXECUTION, AND LAST WILL OF LEWIS XVI LATE KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS MAGNANIMOUS BEHAVIOUR FROM THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BRING HIM TO TRIAL AS A TRAITOR, TO HIS LAST AFFECTIONATE INTERVIEW WITH HIS UNFORTUNATE FAMILY ... [BOUND WITH] AUTHENTIC TRIAL AT LARGE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL AT PARIS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1793

  • Half Leather
  • Edinburgh | London: J. Elder, et al. | Chapman and Co, 1793
Edinburgh | London: J. Elder, et al. | Chapman and Co, 1793. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo. (8 1/2” x 5 3/8”); in half-tan calf over marbled board with morocco label (Trials K & Q of France); [4]. 108 pages, 2 plates as frontispieces; 92 pages, with portrait frontiespiece; the first frontispiece of Louis XVI is hand colored; the second is of a guillotine, with a handy head-catching basket; the second book has a frontispiece of Queen Marie Antoinette; the book is well foxed; the front endpaper has been cut in half vertically; there are two previous owner names on the recto of the frontispiece; lacking the rear endpaper.~~The second of the two titles (Authentic Trial of Marie Antoinette) appears to have been first printed by J. Evans in London the same year as this Chapman imprint. (T80476; T96760). Very Good binding.

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[FRENCH REVOLUTION] [REIGN OF TERROR] THE ACCUSATION, TRIAL, DEFENCE, SENTENCE, EXECUTION, AND LAST WILL OF LEWIS XVI LATE KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS MAGNANIMOUS BEHAVIOUR FROM THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION TO BRING HIM TO TRIAL AS A TRAITOR, TO HIS LAST AFFECTIONATE INTERVIEW WITH HIS UNFORTUNATE FAMILY ... [BOUND WITH] AUTHENTIC TRIAL AT LARGE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL AT PARIS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1793

Binding

Half Leather

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

J. Elder, et al. | Chapman and Co: Edinburgh | London

Date

1793

Edition

First Edition


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