Les amours de cartouche, ou, aventures singulieres et galantes de cet homme, Trop celebre, qui n'ont jamais ete publià es: dont le Manuscrit a ete trouvee apres la prise de la Bastille.

[CARTOUCHE]

Verlag: [s.n., s.d.], Londres, [but probably Paris]

Beschreibung

183pp, [1]. Finely bound in nineteenth-century half red morocco (by Roger De Coverly and Sons, with their stamp to verso of FFEP), marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. A fine copy, with only the slightest shelf-wear to extremities, marginal paper flaw to O4, title and preliminaries slightly marked. Lord Rosebery's copy, with his leather monogrammed ('AR') armorial book-label to FEP. A handsome copy of a spurious romance, almost certainly printed in France, on the life of Louis Dominique Garthausen, generally known as Cartouche (1693-1721), French highwayman and gang leader, which must date from after 1789 (given that the title notes that it was printed from a manuscript discovered after the storming of the Bastille). Eventually executed on a breaking wheel in 1721, his criminal exploits, preying on the wealthy of Paris during the regency of Philippe d'Orleans, were, as with many eighteenth-century European brigands, romanticised in contemporary popular literature. From the 'Continental' library of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847- 1929), British Prime Minister and noted bibliophile, dispersed by Sothebys in 1995 (this title the lead item in lot 193, purchased by Maggs Bros.) Rare; OCLC locates only five copies (BNF, Indiana, Lyon, Newbery and Oxford). Size: 16mo in 8s. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ20122

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Titel: Les amours de cartouche, ou, aventures ...

Verlag: [s.n., s.d.], Londres, [but probably Paris]

Einband: Hardcover