The life of Charles Henry, Count Hoym
By: ambassador from Saxony-Poland to France, and eminent French bibliophile, 1694-1736. Written by Baron Jerome Pichon for the Society of French Bibliophiles, and translated into English for the Grolier Club. With a sketch of the life of the late Baron Pichon ...
Contributors: Vicaire, Georges, 1853-1921; Grolier Club; Club Bindery; De Vinne Press
Publisher: The Grolier Club
Published: 1899
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Work titles: Vie de Charles-Henry, comte de Hoym
Notes: Title in red and black.

Device of the Grolier Club on t.p.

Head-pieces; initials.

"Sketch of the life of Baron Jerome Pichon ... from the French of M. Georges Vicaire": p. 261-286.

"This copy ... is one of an edition of three hundred and three copies on hand-made paper, and three copies on vellum, all of which were printed in the month of February, 1899."

"The De Vinne Press."

The second volume of the French edition consists mostly of references to and quotations from original documents, etc. "Therefore it has been thought best entirely to omit in our translation the contents of the second volume, the first containing the whole of the Life and being complete in itself."--Prefatory remarks.

Announcement of the Committee on Publications, March 15, 1899 (3 p.) inserted.

Uncut.