Author: HARE, Francis
Title: La conduite de son altesse le prince et duc de Marlborough dans la presente guerre. Avec plusieurs pieces originales. Traduit de l'anglois.
Description: Amsterdam: chez Pierre de Coup, 1714. 12mo. [8], 408p. Contemporary calf; gilt spine (worn at head and tail); covers very worn; red-edged leaves, marbled endpapers with printed label 'Smoking Room" on free front endpaper; monetary annotations in pencil on rear flyleaves. It is generally accepted that this defence of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was written by his personal chaplain, Francis Hare, though the book has escaped the attention of most modern writers. First published in English in London in 1712, it has been suggested that that edition was subsidised by Marlborough himself. Hare was an eye-witness to Marlborough's campaigns on the Continent and was concerned to refute the charges - notably by Swift and other Tory critics - that the Duke had sought to prolong the War of the Spanish Succession for his own financial gain. Several years earlier (in 1705) Hare had published, again anonymously, an even more important biographical study of Marlborough, The life and glorious history of John D. and E. of Marlborough, a work of extreme rarity. See R.D. Horn, Marlborough's first biographer, Dr. Francis Hare, Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 20, pp.145-62.

Keywords: John Churchill, Marlborough, antiquarian


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