Calendrier de Philadelphie, ou, Constitutions de Sancho-Pança et du Bon-homme Richard, en Pensylvanie.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Barbeu Du Bourg, M. (Jacques), 1709-1779.

Contributor:

• Curtis Collection of Franklin Imprints (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
• Maxims--Early works to 1800.
• Maxims.
• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Parodies, imitations, etc.

Genre:

• Parodies, imitations, etc.
• Parodies (Literature)

Penn Provenance:

• Rosengarten, Joseph G. (donor) (RBC copy)
• Guyette (autograph, 1794) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages (the last leaf blank) ; 14 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

• Calendrier de Philadelphie
• Constitutions de Sancho-Pança et du Bon-homme Richard, en Pensylvanie

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], MDCCLXXVIII [1778]

Notes:

• A reissue of the 1777 ed. with the title leaf and half-title reset, and with the addition of an introduction, purportedly by Sancho Pança (p. [v]-xxx), and of the "Conversation après souper, entre Mistriss Rachel, Sir Thomas, Le Bon-homme Richard et Sancho-Pança" (p. [1]-6, second count). Some copies retain the first three leaves (including title leaf) of the 1777 ed., although they are cancelled in most. Also cf. William Reese Co. Catalogue 255, no. 26.
• Probably published in Paris and London. Cf. Grand-Carteret, J. Almanachs français, no. 595. Barbier and Quérard record a 1778 ed. with imprint: Philadelphia et Paris, Esprit, 1778.
• Signatures: A⁶(-A1-3+a-c⁶) B-K⁶ (K6 blank).
• Editions of 1802 and 1823 published under title: Almanach de Philadelphie.
• Printed within double-ruled borders.
• "Sorte de manuel de morale dans le genre et à l'imitation du 'Bonhomme Richard' de Franklin."--Grand-Carteret, Almanachs français, 1896.

Local Notes:

• Curtis copy has not had the three preliminary leaves of the 1777 ed. removed.
• Curtis copy wanting first leaf (half-title).

Cited in:

• Sabin 3335
• NUC pre-56 NB0110914

OCLC:

1691866