John Law. With port. of Queen Anne, after the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and three etchings by Adrien Nargeot, after paintings by J.L. Gerome Ferris
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2940018849384 (0018849385)
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1984. I read an 1881 Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. edition:]. I'm afraid I found the principal subject of this novel - financial speculation in 18th-century France - immitigably tedious. And the "romance" side of the plot was curiously detached from it, altho' one could almost ...