Mémoires du chevalier de Kilpar, Traduits ou imités de l'Anglais de M. Fielding par M. D... M... C... D...
Publisher: Chez la veuve Duchesne
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 612
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 2 volumes in one 12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. xii, 282, [2] (last blank); pp. [4], 293, [3], f. [1] (blank). Mottled calf, worn gilded spine (loss of lower edge) with red lettering panel, red edges, marbled pastedowns. Each volume has its own title page, half-title and separate paging. Printer's device on each title page. Includes headpieces and initials. Manuscript mark "N.IS. cas. 9" on first blank verso. Signed on title page: "Louise Morand Turinetti."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Not in fact imitated from Fielding. See W.L. Cross, The History of Henry Fielding. New Haven &amp; London, 1918, III, p. 349: ‘No English tale with this title is known. Called a fraud in Joseph Texte, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature (1899), p. 146n.’ Frequently republished in German under varying titles.
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