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.
Additional Information
| Collection | French history, art, literature , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Period | 18 AD , Late 18th century |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Media/Technique | Engraving , Etching , Laid paper , Paper |
| Subject | 18th century , Fiction , France , French , French literature , Imagined community or society , Literature , Utopia |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1786 |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus |
| Binding | Hardcover , Quarter calf |
| Size | 8vo |
| Catalogue raisonne | Cohen, de Ricci (1912) , J. Lewine (1898) |
| Acquisition year | 2022 |
