May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CORRECTING FRENCH EDITION OF HISTORY OF ENGLAND HUME, DAVID. Autograph Letter Signed, to his translator Madame Belot, stating that he would return corrected sheets to her, noting that the corrections are minor, and suggesting that the sheets from the second volume can be given to the printers. 1 page, small 4to, with integral address leaf; backed, few short closed tears affecting text at center and right edge. "Hotel de Grimberg" [Paris], 24 November 1763
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"You have prevented me in the Request I intended to propose, after our literary Connexions shall be over; Which, however, will not, I hope, be soon; I should be sorry to have had so much Acquaintance with a Person of your Merit; and not to continue, and rather to increase than diminish our Friendship. As Friday is the first day you can be at Leisure to see me, I shall wait upon you in the Afternoon, and bring with me all the Sheets corrected that you committed to me. The Corrections are few & not very material. If the Press come upon us too hastily in the first Volume, we can give the Printers these corrected Sheets of the second Volume, which will be food for them during some time."
The "sheets" under discussion are likely proofs for L'Histoire de la maison des Tudors--a part of the French edition of Hume's History of England, translated by Belot.
Does not appear in Grieg's Letters of David Hume, 2011.