Author: HAMILTON (Anthony), Count:
Title: History of May-Flower. A Circassian Tale. Second Edition.
Description: Salisbury: Printed by J. Easton; for E. Newberry..., 1796. 12mo, pp. iv, [ii], [v] - xi [xii blank], 196, engraved portrait of Hamilton as frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, recently rebacked with plain spine; lacks half-title, plate, and adverts leaf at end. Hamilton published Histoire de fleur d'épine in 1730, and this English translation first appeared in 1793. Hamilton is identified as the author in this second edition. Reviewing the first edition, the Monthly Review commented, "We recommend...the pretty tale of May Flower to the perusal of such of our readers as are disposed to enjoy an hour's light amusement, without calling themselves too strictly to account, when it is past. The work is elegantly translated." Roscoe A210. Raven, James, Antonia Forster, Peter Garside, Rainer Schöwerling; with the assistance of Stephen Bending, Christopher Skelton-Foord and Karin Wünsche, The English Novel 1770 - 1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles, 1793: 20.

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