Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic manuscript, In the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory, by the translator [...]
Publisher: Printed for B. Crosby and Co. R. Wilks, Printer
Published: 1808
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic manuscript, In the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory, by the translator. To which is added, historical fragments, poetry, and remains of the amours, of that unfortunate princess. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. x, [2], 223, [1]. Signatures: [a]4 b2 B-P8. Boards. Rebacked, with labels and extensive notes in ink by G. Hilder Libbis. Unnumbered page directly following page x headed: "Advertisement to the second edition". Contains frontispiece, tailpieces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second edition of a quasi forgery by William Henry Ireland focusing on Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard, the French noble poet who was executed after trespassing Queen Mary Stuart’s quarters. Ireland claimed to have found Chastelard’s manuscripts at the Scots College in Paris including his poems addressed to Queen Mary. See Bib# 4103230/Fr# 506 in this collection for the first edition (London, 1805).
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