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STRACHEY/SENHOUSE COPY

THOU, Jacques Auguste de. Memoires de la vie de jacques-auguste de thou. Conseiller d'etat et president a mortier au parlement de paris.

Amsterdam. Chez Francois l'Honore, 1714. Nouvelle edition.
12mo. [46], 370pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Title in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Light rubbed and marked, upper joint starting. Recent book-labels of Lytton Strachey, Roger Senhouse, and Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, paper repair to verso of title page, scattered spotting, brief pencilled notes in Strachey's hand to rear pastedown.
The second appearance of Jacques Georges Le Petit's and Frédéric Costard's prose and verse translation of the memoirs of French historiographer, statesman, and bibliophile Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617); first published in Latin in 1620.

The present copy was presumably gifted by biographer and literary reviewer Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) to his lover, and fellow Bloomsbury group member, publisher and translator Roger Senhouse (1889-1970).
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref: 14631