Letters of Madame de Maintenon
By: Translated from the French. Volume I [-II]. 60 0.
Contributors: La Beaumelle, Laurent Angliviel de, 1726-1773; Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, dedicatee; Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791, publisher; Reymer, C., active 1759-1772, publisher
Edition: A new ed.
Publisher: Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holborn, printer to the Royal Society.
Published: 1772
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Court and courtiers; History; Cour et courtisans; Courts and courtiers
Notes: 12mo: [v. 1] A⁶ [chi]² B-N¹² O⁶; [v. 2] [A]1 B-N¹² O¹²( -O12); signed $1-5( -[v. 1] A1,4-5, B5, O4-5).

Dedication "To Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta" subscribed "The translator": pages iii-vi; "Preface, by the translator": pages vii-xii (catchword "letters" at foot of xii); "Preface [to the French ed. by M. de la Beaumelle]": p.²v-viii; "Characters": v. 1 p. 290-300; "Madame de Maintenon's advice to the Dutchess of Burgundy": v. 2 p. 295-305; "Books printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers": v. 2 p. [307-310]. -- The Characters are in part by Maintenon, the rest by "another hand"; includes some letters to her. -- A different trans. from that pub. by L. Davis in 1753