Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic manuscript, in the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory, by the translator

[Ireland, William Henry]

Published by printed for C. Chapple, Pall-Mall, and Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London, 1805

About this Item

First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], vi, 151, [1]; engraved frontispiece by Rhodes after Craig, 7 wood-engraved tailpieces ostensibly by Bewick; original drab paper-covered boards, slightly later brown paper shelfback; a bit worn, but generally good and sound. Early ownership signature at the top of the title page of E. Wilding, 1809. Ireland (1775-1835) is known primarily as a forger of would-be Shakespeare documents and plays; he was exposed in 1796 but less than ten years later, he was at it again with Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. "First edition of a quasi-forgery by William Henry Ireland focusing on Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard, the French noble poet who was executed after trespassing Queen Mary Stuart s quarters. Ireland claimed to have found Chastelard s manuscripts at the Scots College in Paris including his poems addressed to Queen Mary" (Johns Hopkins).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic manuscript, in the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory, by the translator
• Publisher: printed for C. Chapple, Pall-Mall, and Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London
• Publication Date: 1805
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature