Accession number
PML 75139-40
Creator
Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
Published
Au Monomotapa [i.e. Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [1748?]
Credit line
Purchased from Mrs. James Ripley.
Notes
First edition.
Published anonymously. By Denis Diderot. Cf. BN.
This edition comprises 51 chapters, not the 54 generally found in editions published after 1798, the year in which chapters 16, 18, and 19 were added. Cf. Jacques Proust's postface to the 1972 Livre de poche edition, page 345; also Diderot, 1713-1784, item 6.
The title page of this edition has the same fictitious imprint as the first edition of 1748. Cf. Diderot, 1713-1784 : ses œuvres et ses raports avec la librairie. 1884. item 6. The precise identification of this edition is complicated by the number of counterfeits produced with the same imprint but with inferior plates.
Published anonymously. By Denis Diderot. Cf. BN.
This edition comprises 51 chapters, not the 54 generally found in editions published after 1798, the year in which chapters 16, 18, and 19 were added. Cf. Jacques Proust's postface to the 1972 Livre de poche edition, page 345; also Diderot, 1713-1784, item 6.
The title page of this edition has the same fictitious imprint as the first edition of 1748. Cf. Diderot, 1713-1784 : ses œuvres et ses raports avec la librairie. 1884. item 6. The precise identification of this edition is complicated by the number of counterfeits produced with the same imprint but with inferior plates.
Description
2 volumes ([8], 370 pages, [5] leaves of plates; [4], 420 pages, [2] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 13 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in unknown hand in ink on title page of volume 1: par M. Diderot.
Provenance
Mrs. James Ripley.
Binding
Brown speckled calf, edges stained red, marbled endpapers.
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