Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646-1720
Title:
Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton ; translated from the French, with notes and illustrations. In three volumes.
Alternate Title(s):
Memoires de la vie du comte de Gramont. English
Edition:
Second edition, revised.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court; for J. White, Fleet Street; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row; and J. Scott, Strand, 1809.
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA447.G7 H36 1809
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 425

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in gold-stamped blue morocco, with gilt edges and gilt tooled end-papers. Armorial bookplate: Anthony Littledale.

BEIN 2015 1553: From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer.

Translated into English from the original French: Mémoires de la vie du comte de Gramont.

Stipple engravings by William Nelson Gardiner, Ignatius Joseph Vandenbergh, E. Bocquet, Silvester, A. Birrell, Thomas Barker, Samuel Freeman, Francesco Bartolozzi, L. LeGoux, Peltro William Tomkins, Thomas Cheesman, and Sheneker.

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 425

NSTC, H309

Includes index.
Subject Terms:
Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621–1707. | Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography. | Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660–1685. | Nobility -- Great Britain -- Portraits. | Nobility -- France -- Portraits. | White, J., -- Publisher. | Bensley, T., -- Printer. | Littledale, Anthony -- Bookplate. | Pforzheimer, Walter L. (Walter Lionel), 1914–2003 -- Ownership. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1809. | Stipple engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1809.
Form/Genre:
Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Vandenbergh, Ignatius Joseph, 1752–1824, engraver. | Gardiner, W. N. (William Nelson), 1766–1814, engraver. | Silvester, engraver. | Birrell, A., active 1770–1820, engraver. | Barker, Thomas, 1769–1847, engraver. | Freeman, Samuel, 1773–1857, engraver. | Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815, engraver. | Legoux, L., engraver. | Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840, engraver. | Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–, engraver. | Bocquet, E., engraver. | Sheneker, engraver. | Knight, Charles, 1743–1827? engraver.