L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. : Rêve s'il en fût jamais ; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French |
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[Amsterdam] :
[Changuion] : [By Poinçot],
1786.
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| Edition: | Nouv. édition avec figures. Tome premier [ -troisieme]. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume. Authorship from Barbier; actual places of printing and distribution and printer and distributor from Wilkie. Preface (volume 1: p. vij) signed: "l'Auteur de l'An 2440." Four of eight states of the editon in octavo published in 1786; for the first time, the text is printed in 3 volumes. The states differ from each other in various errors in paging. Vignette on title pages. Signatures: volume 1: a⁸ A-2A⁸ ( -2A⁸; a1 verso, a4 verso blank); volume 2: pi² A-2A⁸ (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, 2A8 verso blank; leaf L4 signed as: "L2"); volume 3: pi² A-T⁸ V⁶ ( -V6; pi1 verso, pi2 verso blank; leaf S3 signed as: "S5"). Errors in paging, common to states 1-4: volume 2: page 251 misnumb.: "521"; page 291 misnumb.: "191"; page 357 misnumb.: "157"; volume 3: page 73 misnumb.: "74"; page 260 misnumb.: "360"; page 269 misnumb.: "369." Plates (3) unnumbered, serving as frontispieces for volumes 1-3. Plates of the four copies studied belong to the "second suite", with captions in italics (see Wilkie). Contains references to events and people in the Americas. Includes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (volume 3: pages 218-312. 1 plate (frontispiece)), published here for the first time. |
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| Physical Description: | 3 volumes (volumes 1: xvj, 380 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates; volumes 2: 4 unnumbered pages, 381 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates; volumes 3: 4 unnumbered pages, 312 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations ; 21 cm. (octavo) |