@article{642793,
      recid = {642793},
      author = {Gifford, John,},
      title = {Elegant and copious history of France. Intended to be  completed in one hundred weekly numbers. Making four  handsome quarto volumes, superbly embellished; in order to  form a necessary counterpart to the various histories of  England, and without which, indeed, the latter must be  considered as incomplete. The historical designs by that  admired Artist Singleton---the heads of the Kings, and  other eminent persons of France, from valuable pictures,  obtained, with much difficulty, from the cabinets of the  Virtuosi, in Engalnd, Italy, and France---to be executed,  in the best manner, by Jones, engraver extraordinary to His  Royal Highness of Prince of Wales.---The necessary maps,  also, will be given.--- Saturday, May 28, 1791, was  published, price Sixpence, number I. (to be continued  weekly, till completed) of The history of France, from the  earliest times, to the present important era. From the  French of Velly, Villaret, Garnier, Mezeray, Daniel, and  other eminent historians; with notes, critical and  explanatory; By John Gifford, Esq. Conditions. I. Every  number of this work to consist of three sheets of  letter-press, elegantly printed in quarto, on a new type  cast on purpose. II. Every other number to be ornamented  either with an historical print, or a head of some  distinguished personage; the likeness from the cabinets of  the virtuosi; the designs wholly by Singleton; and the  engravings by Jones. III. The work to be printed on a  superfine demy paper. IV. The history to consist of one  hundred numbers; or, should the progress of the late  revolution be marked by new and interesting events, before  the period of the conclusion of this work, to be then  extended at the option of the author, so as to include  every circumstance that may be essential to form a complete  history of France. V. That a number be published regularly  every week, without any interruption whatever. [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {printed by C. Lowndes, Drury-Lane; and sold by W. Locke,  Red-Lion Street, Holborn; H.D. Symonds, No. 20, Paternoster  Row; and all other booksellers and newsmen in town and  country,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {4p. ;},
      year = {1791},
      note = {By 'John Gifford', a pseudonym used by John Richards  Green.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/642793},
}