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Les amours d'une belle Angloise, ou, La vie et les avantures de la jeune Olinde : ecrites par elle mesme en forme de lettres à un chevalier de ses amis

Trotter, Catharine, 1679-1749 · 1695 · A Cologne [i.e. Amsterdam?] : Chez ***** · 3 pictures

This is a French prose romance of 1695, published at Cologne (probably Amsterdam) under the pseudonymous imprint, attributed to Catharine Trotter and written as letters for readers of fashionable French fiction. The three pictures are small woodcut tailpieces of flower baskets and a single engraved frontispiece showing a gentleman and a richly dressed lady in a garden beside a classical urn. A designer could take from them the restrained, symmetrical basket motifs suited to decorative borders and the clean line of late seventeenth-century garden scenes.

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