Details

Subject(s)

• Peddlers—Fiction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Nobility—France—Fiction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Satirical literature [Browse]

Rare books genre

• False imprints [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• printers' ornaments [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• tailpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Le colporteur and 2 others.

Notes

• Page 208 numbered 201.
• Title in red and black, decorated initials, headpieces, tailpieces.
• Signatures: 1 prelim. leaf (half-title), A-T⁸-⁴.
• Not the 1st edition, as described by Gillet, but has the same imprint (fictitious) and number of pages. The 1st edition, printed at The Hague, was published in 1762 (not 1753, as sometimes stated) cf. M. Gillet, Notice historique et bibliographique sur Chevrier (Académie de Stanislas. Mémoires, 1863, p. [135]-313); also Ad. van Bever's ed. of Le colporteur, Paris, 1914.

LCCN

11025859 //r

OCLC

28058623

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