The history of the revolution of France
By: translated from the French of J.P. Rabaut ; ornamented with two elegant engravings.
Contributors: Lacretelle, Charles, 1766-1855.; White, James, 1759-1799.; Johnson, W. M. 1771?-1797.; Scoles, John, 1772?-1853.; Tisdale, Elkanah, 1768-1835.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Re-printed by Thomas Greenleaf for Greenleaf and Fellows
Published: 1794
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
Other titles: Impartial history of the late revolution of France, from the acceptance of the constitution of 1791 to the execution of the deputies of the Gironde party
Notes: Evans 27586
Vol. 1: vii, [2], 10-346, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: x, [1], 12-478 p., [2] leaves of plates.
Preface, v. 1 signed: James White [translator]; plates, v. 1 signed: Scoles; plates, v. 2 signed: Tisdale.
Evans lists titles of both volumes under the title for Rabaut's History of the French revolution and attributes authorship of second volume to Lacretelle. Vol. 2 printed by Thomas Greenleaf for Greenleaf and Fellows.
"The conspiracies of the Gironde or Brissotine party in which the treachery of Lafayette, Dumourier and other commanders of the French armies, is exposed ... translated from the French by W. Martin Johnson"--V. 2, p. 367-436.
LC copy has engraved port. of Rabaut mounted on v. 1, p. vii.
Table of contents: title: v. 1: Political reflections on the present state of affairs / J.P. Rabaut; title: Chronologoical table of the principal decrees which have been passed and of the most remakable events which have taken place, from April 1789 to January 1793.