A SHORT VIEW OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LIEUTENANT- GENERAL VILLETTES, LATE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER OF THE FORCES IN JAMAICA...WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAING A FEW ORIGINAL LETTERS AND ANECDOTES OF THE LATE MADAME ELIZABETH DE FRANCE.
Bowdler, Thomas:
Bath. 1815. [3],159pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original paper boards, printed spine label. Chipping to spine, rubbing to spine label, faint offsetting to titlepage. Overall, a very good copy. The enlarged edition of the biography of Lieut. Gen. William Anne Villettes (1754-1807) by his old friend, Thomas Bowdler, from whom the term "bowdlerize" originated. Villettes served with distinction in a number of campaigns, and was highly thought of by Admiral Nelson. He was governor of Malta from 1801 to 1807, then lieutenant governor of Jamaica, where he died while on an inspection tour. There is a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey. "The following Sketch of the Life of the late...was written immediately after his death, and was given to his friends in England, Malta, and Jamaica." SABIN 7014.
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