Life Trenck Translated by Trenck Baron Frederic Trans Thomas (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Second Edition, 3 vols, contemporary tree calf gilt, morocco numbering labels. Slight wear & unobtrusively lacking title labels. Bound without half-titles : text with a few short tears, slight soiling of some first & last leaves. Very good firm & attractive copy in original binding. ** With the engraved portrait of Trenck elegantly posed in chains in a gloomy dungeon : but bound without the prelim Explanation Of Plate leaf. *** Scarce 2nd Edition : not listed by Colby : not in British Library or NUC. *** Famous autobiography: drawn on by William Godwin for his novel Things As They Are. *** Trenck 1726-94, celebrated Austrian military adventurer imprisoned for his affair with the sister of Frederick II of Prussia : his attempts at escape were of 'incredible audacity'. He moved to Paris to spectate the French Revolution : having lived through the Terror, he was denounced as an Austrian spy & guillotined. 'One of Holcroft's most successful translations' [Colby]. *** Colby lists Holcroft's 1788 1st Edition, also the 3rd & various other editions, but not this 2nd Edition : and no copy in BL or NUC. See 18thcSTC listing only the Cambridge & London University copies of this 2nd Edition .See Blakey listing only the 4th Edition, Minerva 1817. ***** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.