Réflexions sur l'importance de Dunkerque et sur l'état present de cette place - Steele, Richard 1672-1729 (London Baldwin, 1715)
Sir Richard Steele was an Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.
Because of its position, Dunkirk was the object of much envy and periodically belonged to the county of Flanders, the kingdoms of Spain, England and France. On 25 June 1658, it changed nationality three times and became definitively French on 27 October 1662. In English literature of the early 18th century, few political or diplomatic considerations attracted more attention then the proposed demolition of the harbor and fortifications of Dunkirk, which (during the succesive struggles with France) had sheltered a fleet of commerce-raiders and had kept alive the thread of an invasion of England or Scotland.
Front and back matter contain manuscript notes (numbers, pencil embellishments, and text in black ink "Pierre honaij Corporal Dans le Regiment Wallon Du General Major ... Dans la Company Du Capitaine De Choisij")
Ex libris P. honaij (manuscript)
Bound in white vellum
Avec Une Carte du Nouveau Port à Mardick & le Plan des anciens Ouvrages de Dunkerque. Traduit de l'Anglais
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); History; Pamphlet; Politics; Dunkerque (France); United Kingdom