Accession number
PML 125995.1
Creator
Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.
Published
London : by W. O. for Sam. Briscoe, at the Black-a-moors-head, in Bow-street, Covent-garden, M.DCC [i.e. 1700]
Credit line
Purchase, n.d.
Notes
"The epistle dedicatory" signed: Sam. Briscoe -- A2.
Title of 1st English edition (1688): A discovery of new worlds.
Errors in pagination include p. 94 printed upside down, and pp. 81-98 repeated numbering. Last page should read 114.
With: "An essay on translated prose" (20 p.) at end.
With ownership inscription on the front free endpaper: "July ye 28th 1701 pr 4s 6 d, A. Longe Her Book".
Possibly issued as Behn's Histories, novels, and translations; the second volume . (Cf. last pamphlet, "The end of the second volume", dated 1698, p. 87 colophon of The unhappy mistake, or, the impious vow punish'd by Mrs. A. Behn.
With bookseller's description, John Howell Books, San Francisco (cf. file).
Title of 1st English edition (1688): A discovery of new worlds.
Errors in pagination include p. 94 printed upside down, and pp. 81-98 repeated numbering. Last page should read 114.
With: "An essay on translated prose" (20 p.) at end.
With ownership inscription on the front free endpaper: "July ye 28th 1701 pr 4s 6 d, A. Longe Her Book".
Possibly issued as Behn's Histories, novels, and translations; the second volume . (Cf. last pamphlet, "The end of the second volume", dated 1698, p. 87 colophon of The unhappy mistake, or, the impious vow punish'd by Mrs. A. Behn.
With bookseller's description, John Howell Books, San Francisco (cf. file).
Description
[18], [114] (i.e. 96, [81-98 sic]), 20 p. : ill., front. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Ownership inscription of A. Longe dated July 8, ?1705.
Binding
Contemporary dark calf, gilt back.
Classification
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Department