The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes, historical, political and personal.

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  • The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes, historical, political and personal.
  • Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte. English
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Imprint
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by W. Woodhouse, at the Bible no 6, South Front-Street, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
Added name
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809, tr. Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver. Vallance, J. (John), 1770-1823, engraver. Woodhouse, William, 1740?-1795, printer.
Publication year
1792
ESTC No.
W13608
Grub Street ID
322954
Description
345,[3]p., [1]leaf of plates : 1 port. ; 12⁰
Note
Translated by Thomas Holcroft.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Trenck signed: Thackara & Vallance, sculpt.

"The history of Francis Baron Trenck, a partisan colonel, and commander in chief of the pandours, in the service of Her Majesty the Empress-Queen; written by Frederic Baron Trenck, as a necessary supplement to his own history."--p. [269]-309, with separate title page.

Printer's advertisement, p. [346].
Uncontrolled note
Signatures: A-2F? (2F6 blank)