CASTÉRA (Jean-Henri):

The Life of Catharine II. of Russia. Translated from the French and Enlarged with Explanatory Notes and Brief Memoirs of Illustrious Persons. A New Edition. By the Rev. W. W. Dakins.

London: Printed for George Cawthorn, British Library..., Messrs Richardson..., H. D. Symonds, J. Wallis, West and Hughes..., J. Wring; and P. Hill, Edinburgh, 1799. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xx, 365 [366 blank]; vi, 411 [412 blank], engraved portrait in each volume, with one additional engraved portrait in volume 1 and two engraved portraits in volume 2, contemporary half calf, marbled boards; ex-library (Reading Library, Pennsylvania) with library perforations on each portrait, title-page, and last page of text in each volume, portraits foxed, binding falling to bits and lacking rear cover on volume 1. A sorry copy. Dakins' translation was published the year after an anonymous translation printed and published by G. Cawthorn; a second edition, enlarged to three volumes by W. Tooke was also published in 1798, with a third edition in 1799. Dakins does not allude to or mention these earlier translations. ESTC T168522 locates 5 copies: L, BMp, WNS; CaOHM, TxLT.

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Catalogue: Russia

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