Melanges de la litterature angloise
By: traduits par Madame B**** premiere [et seconde] partie
Publisher: Chez Prault Fils, Libraire, Quay de Contu, la seconde Boutique après la rue de Nevers, à la charité.
Published: 1759
Place of publication: A la Haye, et se trouve a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Modern Ethics; Early works to 1800; Social ethics; Political science
Notes: Madam B****, the translator = Octavie Guichard, Madame Belot, later Durey de Meinières.

Anthology of English literature, translated into French, which includes the first recorded French translations of the first three of David Hume's "Essays, moral and political", originally published in Edinburgh in 1741. The three essays translated are: Of the delicacy of taste and passion, Of the liberty of the press, Of impudence and modesty.

Anthology also includes translations of works by Samuel Johnson, Matthew Prior and Edmund Burke.

Imprint is false, work was printed and published in Paris.

Includes leaf of errata at end.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf; spine tooled in gilt with gilt-lettered red morocco title label; all edges stained red; marbled endpapers.