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.

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Title: The Life Of Baron Frederic Trenck : translated from the German. Containing his adventures, his cruel & excessive sufferings during ten years imprisonment etc. Second Edition.
Publisher: Robinson 1789.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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