A select collection of novels
By: written by the most celebrated authors in several languages; many of which have never appear'd in English before, and all new translated from the originals, by several eminent hands.
Contributors: Saint-Réal, M. l'abbé de 1639-1692.; Scarron, Paul; La Fayette, Madame de 1634-1693.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721.; Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782 (bookplate)
Publisher: Watts
Published: 1720
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Fiction -- Collections.
Other titles: The beautiful Turk ...; The happy slave ...; The History of the Count de Belflor ...
Notes: RBSC copy: With the armorial bookplate of John, Earl of Loudoun [Franks 4950].
Table of contents: value: Vol 1. - Huet's Letter to De Segrais, upon the Original of Ramances; Zayde; The marriage of Belfegor; The jealous Estremaduran.- Vol. 2. - The Princess of Cleves; The fair maid of the Inn; The force of friendship; The history of the Captive.-  Vol. 3. - Don Carlos; The history of Count Belflor and Leonora de Cespedes; The curious impertinent; The prevalence of blood; The liberal lover; The beautiful Turk.-  Vol. 4. - The happy slave; The rival ladies; The innocent adultery; The history of the Conspiracy of the Spaniards against the Republic of Venice.