Description: Three volumes 20.5 x 13 cm each, collated 8vo, uniformly bound in quarter calf over marbled boards, with raised bands, gilt in compartments and black and brown gilt-lettered labels to spine; bookplate “Ex libris Jacques Laget” pasted on to front pastedown. Printed on laid paper, with tall “s”.

Title-page: L’AN | DEUX MILLE | QUATRE CENT QUARANTE. | Rêve s’il en fût jamais; | SUIVI DE | L’HOMME DE FER, | SONGE. | — | Le présent est gros l’avenir. / Leibnitz. (O utinam !; Le plaisir sans égal seroit de fonder la félicité publique.) | — | NOUVELLE ÉDITION | Avec Figures. | TOME PREMIER (SECOND; TROISIEME). | {device} | — | 1786. ||

Vol 1: fep a⁸ A-Z⁸ 2A⁸; total 201 leaves plus engraved frontispiece by Ghendt after Marillier; pp: ff [i-v] vi-xvi, 1-380 [4]; total 402 pages.

Vol. 2: fep π², A-Z⁸ 2A⁸ fep; total 196 leaves plus engraved frontispiece by Ghendt after Marillier; pp: [6] 1-381 [5]; total 392 pages.

Vol. 3: fep π², A-T⁸ V⁵ fep; total 161 leaves plus engraved frontispiece by Ghendt after Marillier; pp: [6] 1-312 [4]; total 322 pages.

Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-DeRicci 701; Lewine 353

Provenance: Jacques Laget (French, 1821 – 1884).

Contributors:

Louis-Sébastien Mercier (French, 1740 – 1814) – author.

Clément Pierre Marillier (French, 1740 – 1808) – artist

Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738 – 1815) – engraver.

See also: LIB-0979.2016 and LIB-2695.2021.