L'Histoire Amoureuse de la Cour d'Angleterre sous le Règne de Charles II’ (with an ‘avis du libraire’), Cologne, 1713, 1715; Rotterdam, 1716; the Hague (with ‘Discours Préliminaire’), 1731 or 1741; Utrecht, 1732, 12mo; (2) ‘Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Grammont’ (Bibliothèque de Campagne, ed. E. A. Philippe de Prétot, vol. vi.), the Hague and Geneva, 1749, 12mo; (3) ‘Mémoires du Compte (sic) de Grammont,’ Amsterdam (?), 1760, 12mo; (4) ‘Mémoires du Comte de Grammont. Nouvelle edition. Augmentée de Notes et Éclaircissemens Nécessaires. Par M. Horace Walpole’ (dedicated to Madame du Deffand), Strawberry Hill, 1772, 4to (very rare, only one hundred copies having been printed); (5) London, 1776, 8vo; (6) Paris, 1780 (D'Artois collection; on vellum, only three copies printed), 3 tom. 18mo; (7) London, 1781, 2 tom. 12mo; (8) London, 1793, 4to (with 72 portraits); (9) London, 1811, 2 tom. 8vo (with biographical notice and 64 portraits engraved by E. Scriven; revised and edited by A. F. Bertrand de Moleville, with notes drawn in part from Sir Walter Scott's edition of the English translation, as to which see infra); (10) ‘… accompagnés d'un appendice contenant des extraits du journal de S. Pepys et de celui de J. Evelyn … d'une introduction et de commentaires, &c., par G. Brunet,’ Paris, 1859, 12mo; (11) ‘… avec une introduction et des notes par M. de Lescure’ (Nouvelle Bibliothèque Classique), Paris, 1876, 12mo; (12) ‘Réimpression conforme à l'Edition Princeps, 1713. Préface et Notes par B. Pifteau. Frontispice, Six Eaux-fortes par J. Chauvet. Lettres, Fleurons, et Culs-de-Lampe par L. Lemaire,’ Paris, 1876, 8vo; (13) Paris, 1888, 8vo (with portrait and thirty-three etchings by Boisson, from compositions by Delort, preface by Gausseron). There is also an English translation by Abel Boyer, a very slovenly performance, London, 1714, 1719, 8vo; revised and edited anonymously, with notes and illustrations by Sir Walter Scott, 1811, 8vo; reprinted, London, 1818; again, in Bohn's extra volume, London, 1846, 8vo; new and revised edition, illustrated by Boisson, after Delort, London, 1889, 8vo. A German translation appeared at Leipzig in 1780, 8vo.
Of the ‘Contes’ the following are the chief editions: (1) ‘Le Bélier, Conte,’ Paris, 1730, 12mo; (2) ‘Les Quatre Facardins, Conte,’ Paris (?), 1749, 12mo; (3) ‘Histoire de Fleur d'Épine,’ Paris (?), 1749, 12mo; (4) ‘Œuvres Diverses du Comte Antoine Hamilton’ (the ‘Lettres et Épîtres’ and ‘Zénéyde’), London, 1776, 12mo; (5) ‘Contes d'Hamilton’ (D'Artois collection; vellum, three copies only printed), Paris, 1781, 8vo; (6) ‘Le Bélier, Fleur d'Épine, et Les Quatre Facardins’ (‘Le Cabinet des Fées,’ vol. xx.), Amsterdam, 1785, 8vo; (7) ‘L'Enchanteur Faustus’ (‘Voyages Imaginaires, Songes, Visions, et Romans Cabalistiques,’ vol. xxxv.), Amsterdam, 1789, 8vo; (8) ‘Contes d'Hamilton’ (without the continuations, and prefaced by Anger's biographical notice, vols. xiii. and xiv. of a ‘Collection dédiée a Madame la Duchesse d'Angoulême’), Paris, 1815, 3 tom. 16mo; 1826, 2 tom. 32mo (in ‘Collection de Classiques Français’); 1828, 32mo (in ‘Collection des Meilleurs Romans Français et Étrangers’). (9) ‘Contes d'Hamilton avec une notice de M. de Lescure’ (‘Petits Chefs d'œuvres’ ser.), Paris, 1873, 12mo; (10) ‘Fleur d'Épine’ (part of a volume of reprints edited by M. de Lescure and entitled ‘Le Monde Enchanté’), Paris, 1883, 8vo. An English translation of the ‘Contes’ appeared under the title of ‘Select Tales. Translated from the French,’ London, 1760, 2 vols. 12mo; another, entitled ‘Fairy Tales and Romances. Translated from the French by M. Lewis, H. T. Ryde, and C. Kenney,’ in Bohn's extra volume, London, 1849, 8vo. There is also a German translation of the ‘Contes’ in ‘Die Blaue Bibliothek,’ vol. ii., Gotha, 1790.
The following collected editions of Hamilton's work were issued:
- ‘Œuvres du Comte Antoine Hamilton,’ Paris and London, 1749–1776, 7 tom. 12mo.
- ‘Œuvres Complètes du Comte Antoine Hamilton’ (with historical and literary notices and additional pieces by L. S. Auger), Paris, 1804, 3 tom. 8vo.
- ‘Œuvres,’ with ‘Notice sur la Vie et les Ouvrages d'Hamilton’ (unsigned), 1812, 3 tom. 8vo; 1813, 5 tom. 18mo; 1825, with biographical notice signed D. (Depping), 1 tom. 8vo; 1825, with biographical notice by J. B. J. Champagnac, 2 tom. 8vo.
[The earliest consecutive account of Hamilton's life is the ‘Avertissement’ to an edition of the Mémoires published in 1746, Paris, 12mo, and which may also be read in Notes and Queries, 1st ser. ix. 3. Biographies more or less elaborate are also prefixed to the collective editions of his works. Besides the works cited see Cunningham's Story of Nell Gwyn, 1852, App. ii.; Quérard's Dict. Nouvelle Biog. Univ. Littéraire; Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, i. 7; Carte's Life of Ormonde, iii. 584; Arlington's Letters, ii. 332; Gabriel Daniel's Hist. de la Milice Françoise, 1721, ii. 247; Dict. des Théâtres, v. 538; Mémoires du Comte de Grammont, ed. Horace Walpole, 1772, p. vi n.; Fitzgerald's Narrative of the Irish Popish Plot, 1680, p. 5; Ferrar's Limerick, 1st ed. 1767, p. 39, 2nd ed. 1787, p. 59; Lenihan's Limerick, p. 210; Clarendon Correspondence, i. 336, 422–3, 488–9, 553, ii. 1; Archdall's Peerage of Ireland, v. 119.]
