Lettres de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, depuis 1753 jusqu'à 1762, inclusivement.

People / Organizations

• François Barbé-Marbois (Author)

Imprint

Londres : chez G. Owen; et Cadell, 1772.

Added name

Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764.

Publication year

1772

ESTC No.

T202151

Grub Street ID

233182

Description

2v. ; 8°.

Note

Not in fact by Madame de Pompadour; attributed to François Marquis de Barbé-Marbois

The imprint is false; printed on the continent.

Uncontrolled note

Titlepage of vol. 1 has ornament of a crowned shield almost surrounded by a garland; that of vol. 2 a sun under a crown that is part of a diamond-shaped decorative border. Types and ornaments suggest provincial French, Low Countries or perhaps French-speaking Switzerland? Numerous "Londres" edits. of this work circulated in this period