[HÉNEAULT, Charles Jean François] Cornélie, Vestale; Tragédie, Strawberry Hill, 1768, 8°, engraved frontispiece (title lightly browned), contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco by P. Bozerian, ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt inner dentelles, green silk doublures and liners, g.e. [Hazen 13]

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[HÉNEAULT, Charles Jean François] Cornélie, Vestale; Tragédie, Strawberry Hill, 1768, 8°, engraved frontispiece (title lightly browned), contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco by P. Bozerian, ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, gilt inner dentelles, green silk doublures and liners, g.e. [Hazen 13]

Horace Walpole to George Montagu, 15th April 1768: "My press is revived, and is printing a French play written by the old Président Héneault ... I print it to please the old man ... He is to have a hundred copies and there are to be but an hundred more, of which you will have one" (Hazen).

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