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100 1 $aMercier, Louis-Sébastien,$d1740-1814.
245 12 $aL'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. :$bRêve s'il en fût jamais; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe.
250 $aNouvelle édition avec figures. Tome premier [-troisieme]
260 $a[Amsterdam :$bChanguion],$c1787.
300 $a3 v. (v. 1: [4], viij, [9]-251, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 241, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [4], 203, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates) :$bill. ;$c21 cm. (8vo)
500 $aOriginally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume.
500 $aExtended edition, in three volumes, first published Amsterdam, 1786.
500 $aA new edition in octavo, published in 1787, again in threee volumes, but with tightlier set type.
500 $aAuthorship from Weller; actual place of printing and printer from Wilkie. Preface (v. 1: p. ij) signed: "l'Auteur de l'An 2440."
500 $aVignette on title pages.
500 $aSignatures: v. 1: pi² A-Q⁸ (Q7 verso, Q8 blank); v.2: pi² A-P⁸ Q² (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, Q2 verso blank); v. 3: pi² A-N⁸ (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, N7 verso, N8 blank)
500 $aVolume 2: p. 83 misnumb.: "33"; page number in v. 3: p. 129 printed upside down; v. 3: p. 168 misnumb.: "164"
500 $aPlates (3) unnumbered; plate in v. 1 serving as frontispiece, plates in v. 2 and 3 facing p. [1] of text each.
500 $aContains references to events and people in the Americas.
500 $aIncludes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (v. 3: p. 141-203. 1 plate, facing p. [1])
510 4 $aMartin, A.A. Bib. du genre romanesque français,$c71.36.
510 4 $aQuérard, J.M. La France littéraire,$c6: p. 58.
510 4 $aWilkie, E.C. Mercier's L'an 2440,$c1787.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary half calf and paper boards.
650 0 $aUtopias.
700 10 $aMercier, Louis-Sébastien,$d1740-1814.$tHomme de fer, songe.
740 01 $aAn 2440.
740 01 $aHomme de fer, songe.
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