Accession number
PML 130341-43
Creator
Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
Published
A Paris : Chez Michel, rue neuve Saint-Augustin ... Le Normant, imprimeur du Journal des débats ... Billois, libraire ..., An 8. 1800.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Author's preface explains that the idea for this work came from John Campbell's translation of Cohausen's Hermippus redivivus, or, The sage's triumph over old age.
Frontispiece engravings, including avant la lettre (v. 1), by Mariage after Chaillou (total of 3 plates).
Advertisements on final leaf of v. 2 (p. [335]-336).
Signatures: v. 1: pi², A-O¹², P⁸[-P8]; v. 2: pi², A-O¹²; v. 3: pi², A-N¹², O¹⁰[-O10].
Cf. Quérard, v. 3, p. 392 (1st French ed., 1799).
Frontispiece engravings, including avant la lettre (v. 1), by Mariage after Chaillou (total of 3 plates).
Advertisements on final leaf of v. 2 (p. [335]-336).
Signatures: v. 1: pi², A-O¹², P⁸[-P8]; v. 2: pi², A-O¹²; v. 3: pi², A-N¹², O¹⁰[-O10].
Cf. Quérard, v. 3, p. 392 (1st French ed., 1799).
Description
3 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 18 cm (12mo)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 calf, gold-tooled with shelving numbers printed in black on paper labels at foot of each volume: 536, 537, 538; marbled boards.
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