BOILEAU, Daniel. 20155

£65

Description

Autograph Letter Signed ‘Danl. Boileau’, offering to edit Goldsmith’s Geography, to prepare a Topographical Dictionary of Europe, and offering his services as a translator, and offering his own ‘Statistical Account’ for publication. In English. 2 pp. 8 x 7 inches, one corner torn, central filing hole, otherwise good. Pimlico, 31 March 1808. Daniel Boileau, author, editor and translator. “but, Sir, there is a work of more extensive importance for which I have collected great many materials and which I could send to the Press as soon as I meet with a Liberal Editor. It is the Statistical Account of all the States of Europe, beginning by the British and French Empires, on the basis of my Essay on the study of Statistics; which has been very favorably reviewed, particularly by the Monthly Review.”