Lille for Chez JACQUET sur la grande-Place and in Lyon for Chez les Frères DE-VILLE - 1747

Shows the dates in Old and New Styles i.e. Culloden 16th April (O.S. in Great Britain) and 27 April (N.S. in Europe)

Book Description: Lille and Lyon 1747., 1747. Ascanius ou le jeune avanturier. Histoire veritable, contenant un recit très-circonstancié de tout ce qui est arrivé de plu secret & de plus remarquable au Prince Charles-Edouard Stuart, dans le nord de ;'Ecosse, depuis la bataille de Culloden donnée le 16/27 Avril 1746 jusqu'à son embarquement arrivé le 19/30 Septembre de la même année. Traduite de l'Anglois, et augmentée d'un grand nombre de rémarques historiques. Lille: chez Jacquet; et à Lyon: chez les Frères De-Ville, 1747. 144 pp. Sm. 8vo, contemporary half calf (some rubbing). First edition in French; first published in London the year before. A translation of the first portion to be published on a novel romanticizing the career of the Young Pretender. The English text appeared as a 64-page pamphlet, with a false imprint, and the author, along with booksellers involved, were summoned for an examination by the authorities. This part of the novel was then quickly incorporated as Book II of the longer version (translated into French in 1763). Title-page a trifle dusty, otherwise a very good copy; with the armorial Strathallan bookplate. Very scarce. Rochedieu, p. 45 (wrongly listed under John Burton).