Philibert, comte de Gramont
Memoirs of the Count de Grammont 4to.
[unable to find exact, but BL cat shows this 1794 Sep-10-2005:
HAMILTON, Anthony, called Count.:
Memoirs of Count Grammont ... A new translation [being a revised edition of A. Boyer’s version], with notes and illustrations. Embellished with seventy-six portraits, of the principal characters mentioned in the work. MS. notes..
pp. iii. 363. lxxxiv. S. & E. Harding: London, [1794.].
4º..
Holdings data is not complete; there may be further holdings than those detailed here.
Collection;Shelfmk Humanities ; 1572⁄418.
Holdings note [Another copy of the plates only.] [1794].
Collection;Shelfmk Humanities ; 10657.i.15.
[unable to find exact, but BL cat shows this 1809, Sep-10-2005
HAMILTON, Anthony, called Count.:
Memoirs of Count Grammont ... Translated from the French, with notes and illustrations. Second edition, revised..
3 vol. G. White, etc.: London, 1809..
8º..
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Collection;Shelfmk Humanities ; 1509⁄438.
Collection;Shelfmk Humanities ; 1608⁄3621.
Holdings note [Another copy.] Memoirs of Count Grammont, etc. 1809.
[unable to find, but LC shows an 1811] Sep-10-2005
LC Control Number: 09006736
Type of Material: Text (Book, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646-1720.
Main Title: Memoirs of Count Grammont,
Published⁄Created: London, W. Miller [etc.] 1811.
Related Names: Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832, ed.
Description: 2 v. 60 port. incl. fronts. 23 cm.
Subjects: Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707. [from old catalog]
Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685. [from old catalog]
CALL NUMBER: DA447.G7 H27
Copy 1
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Hamilton, Count Anthony & Grammont, Philbert Count de. Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont: Containing, in particular, the Amorous Intrigues of the Court of England in the Reign of King Charles II...Translated from the French.
1760. London: Thomas Payne, 8vo. viii,327,[1]pp. Modern red cloth, gilt title. T.p. in red and black. Philibert, the Count de Grammont (1621-1707), a man of illustrious family; a gambler and a libertine, whose lack of scruple as shown in his memoir was judged lightly in his day. He lived, for a time, at the court of Louis XIV, from which he was banished in consequence of his attentions to a royal favorite; then at the court of Charles II, where he married Elizabeth Hamilton. The first part of his memoirs, down to Grammont's exile, appears to have been dictated from Grammont to Hamilton. The remainder was probably composed by Hamilton (1645?-1719). "The work is mainly occupied with the ‘amorous intrigues’ at the court of Charles II during 1662-4; it is written with such brilliancy and vivacity that it must always rank as a classic. Grammont died in 1707, and the book appeared anonymously in 1713. It became what Chamfort (fuvres, ed. 1824, iii. 247) called it, ‘le bréviaire de la jeune noblesse.’ The Abbé de Voisenon thought it a book to be regularly re-read every year (fuvres, ed. 1781, iv. 129). Voltaire's estimate is more discriminating: ‘de tous les livres celui où le fonds le plus mince est paré du style le plus gai, le plus vif et le plus original’ (fuvres, ed. 1785, xx. 101). That a foreigner should thus prove himself more French than the French is a unique phenomenon in the history of literature. "DNB Lowndes 926.OCLC: 30941587.
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Another work executed by Ritchie, with uncommon splendour and and expense, was "Memoirs of the Count de Grammont," a small page, upon quarto, 1500 copies small paper, 500 on Whatman's wove royal, one copy on vellum, and three copies having this diminutive quarto page worked in the centre of a whole sheet of the royal paper.
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