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A select collection of novels and histories : In six volumes /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Croxall, Samuel, 1688 or 1689-1752
Other Authors: La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693, Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715, Scarron, Paul, 1610-1660, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616, Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527, Saint-Réal, M. l'abbé de (César Vichard), 1639-1692, Brémond, Sébastien, approximately 1645-, Alemán, Mateo, 1547-1614?, Chevreau, Urbain, 1613-1701, Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776 (Engraver)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for John Watts, M DCC XXIX. [1729]
Edition:The second edition, with additions. Adorn'd with cutts.
Subjects:
French literature > Translations into English.
Italian literature > Translations into English.
Spanish literature > Translations into English.
English literature > Early works to 1800.
Novellas.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Engravings.
Description
Item Description:Dedication to each vol. signed: S.C. [i.e. Samuel Croxall].
Title page to volume 1 only in red and black.
No edition statement appears on individual title pages.
Frontispieces engraved by G. van der Gucht; the same frontispieces were used for volumes 1,4,6 and 2,3,5.
Vignettes on title pages; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy (the complete 6-volume set) was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:6 volumes : frontispieces, plates ; 17 cm