PEAT, Anthony B North [Sophie de Bezancourt Loyré d'Arbouville, the Countess d'Arbouville]. Manuscript Book for The Village Doctor, translated from the French [of The Countess D'Arbouville,] by Anthony North Peat. [Author of, Gossip from Paris during the Second Empire : correspondence (1864-1869) of Anthony B. North Peat, attaché au. No Place: No Publisher, 1850.

Original ink handwritten Manuscript translation, contained in a quarter leather bound notebook, gilt lettering at spine, raised spine bands, pebbled cloth over boards, approx. 200 pages. Signed by North Anthony Peat at title page and dedication page, dated 1848 at title and 1850 at dedication page. Scarce translation of The Village Doctor, by The Countess D'Arbouville, predating the published English translation in 1853 by Maunsell B. Field. The introduction for Peat's Gossip from Paris during the Second Empire tells us that Peat's letters were sent daily from Paris during the years 1864 to 1870, and that he died from the effects of an accident during the early days of the siege of Paris. The letters were addressed mainly to the readers of the Morning Star, a daily London paper, the organ of the Manchester school of politics, but several appeared elsewhere, notably in The Yorkshire Post. As Attache, Peat saw every morning the telegrams which passed through the Home Office, and thus was enabled to test the accuracy of current reports. The natural objection to a Government Attache being the correspondent of a foreign paper was waived shortly after the correspondence began and were sanctioned by His Excellency, the Marquis de Lavalette.
The authorial introduction to the 1853 translation of D'Arbouville's tales states that "The Village Doctor has already been done into English in this country for an Eastern periodical, although he has never happened to see the book in question." This unknown translation was perhaps the present version provided by Peat. There were only fifty copies of the original French version. A Very Good volume, some minor cracking to leather spine spine ends.

Price: $1,500.00