the Future Duke against French Follies
HOWARD, Charles. Thoughts, essays, and maxims, chiefly religious and political. London: Printed for T. Lewis. 1768.
Small 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine, gilt foliate border to covers, red speckled edges; pp. [7], 4-143, [1 (blank)]; extremities a little worn, hinges cracked but firm, slight wear to head of spine; very light offsetting throughout text; a good copy of a scarce work. Provenance: contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (1717-1786) to front pastedown.
First edition of these short miscellaneous essays by Charles Howard (1720-1786), who later became the tenth Duke of Norfolk.
The essays cover a range of topics, including justice, persecution, duelling, gaming, profiles of notable figures (like the satirist Charles Churchill), and observations on the character of the English, Scots, Irish, and French. On the French, Howard remarks: ‘[they] are criticised and envied by their neighbours, and imitated by the English; and the worst of it is, this imitation is extended to their follies and foibles’.
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