Title page: L’AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE. | Rêve s’il en fût jamais. | Le temps présent est gros de l’avenir… | Leibnitz. | {letterpress device} | A LONDRES. | MD CCLXXII. ||

Pagination: [i-iv] v-xii, 1-402 [2];

Collation: 8vo; π⁶ A-Z⁸ Aa-Bb⁸ Cc².

Binding: 19 x 12 cm, full mottled calf, rebacked, spine with gilt-lettered red label, compartments ruled gilt, with gilt fleuron ornament, marbled endpapers and all edges; printed on laid paper, with tall “s”. Probably published in Paris, anonymously. Handwritten nut-ink inscription to the title “Par Mercier”.

See also: LIB-0979.2016