SULLY (Maximilien de Béthune), Duc de: - Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. Containing The History of the Life and Reign of that Monarch, And his own Administration under Him. Translated [by Charlotte Lennox] from the French. To which is added, The Tryal of Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great.

London, Printed for A. Millar..., 1756. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 4to, pp. [vi], xxxii, 540; [iv], viii, 555 [556 blank]; vii [viii blank], 407 [408 blank, 409 - 530 Index], including half-titles in volumes 1 and 2, contemporary calf, gilt spines, morocco labels; no cancel leaves or blanks at end of volume 3, joints cracked, spines rubbed, tops and bases of spines chipped, labels slightly chipped, ex-library, with library label on front paste-down end-papers. Allen Hazen in his Samuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications (1937) attributed the dedication to Samuel Johnson, though R. W. Chapman in his Johnsonian Bibliography: A Supplement to Courtney (1939) disputed the attribution. Johnson also had the pleasure of reviewing the translation in The Literary Magazine in 1756. Fleeman accepts the attribution Fleeman 56.11LS/1

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