Discourses on the deceitfulness of humane virtues / by Monsieur Esprit, of the French Academy at Paris : done out of French by William Beauvoir ... ; to which is added, the Duke de la Rochefoucaut's Moral reflections.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esprit, Mr. (Jacques), 1611-1678.

Contributor:

Beauvoir, William de.

Bell, Andrew, -1720?, bookseller.

Round, James, -1745, bookseller.

Smith, Richard, -approximately 1720, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Fausseté des vertus humaines. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Virtue--Early works to 1800.

Virtue.

Ethics--Quotations, maxims, etc--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Penn Provenance:

Mercantile Library of Philadelphia (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Yerger, Henry N. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 432, that is, 424 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xvi, 95, that is, 99 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Discourses on the deceitfulness of human virtues

Moral reflections and maxims, written by the late Duke de la Rochefoucauld : newly made English from the Paris edition

Fingerprint:

f.ne sts, esat anTh (3) 1706 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for And. Bell ..., R. Smith ..., and J. Round ..., 1706.

Notes:

Translations of La fausseté des vertus humaines by Jacques Esprit and of Réflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales by François de la Rochefoucauld.

Errata: verso of leaf A8.

The Moral reflections has special added title page and separate pagination sequence, and includes an index.

Signatures: A⁸ B⁸(-B1+'B'1) C-O⁸ P⁴ Q⁸(-Q1+'Q'1) R-2E⁸ chi² a⁸ *A-*F⁸ *G² *H⁴.

Leaves *A2-*A4 signed A2-A4; leaves *C2-*C4 signed C2-C4; leaves *H1-*H2 signed 'H'1-H2.

With side-notes.

Errors in pagination: in the first sequence, numbers 212-219 omitted, p. 226-227 misnumbered 326 & 237, respectively, p. 279 misnumbered 729; in the second sequence, numbers 77-80 repeated in sequence, p. 82-83 misnumbered 80-81, p. 86-87 misnumbered 84-85, p. 90-91 misnumbered 88-89.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has cancel leaves (B1.Q1) bound between P1 and P2. Cancelland leaves have not been replaced and are present in their original position. Catchword on leaf A8 matches the corrected cancel leaf B1. The differences seem limited to the caption titles: caption title on cancelland leaves reads "The deceitfulness of humane virtues," while the cancel leaves have this changed to "Discourses on the deceitfulness of humane virtues."

Culture Class Collection copy has leaves chi1.2 inversely folded and bound such that chi2 precedes chi1.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in the binding of the Mercantile Library Company, of Philadelphia, with "Mercantile Library C" pressed into the top and bottom boards, the shelf-mark stamped in gilt on the spine, and the bookplate with shelf-mark completed in ms. affixed to the front paste-down endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has the stamp of "Henry N. Yerger, bookbinder" of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on a preliminary leaf.

Cited in:

ESTC, T108969

Contains:

La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680. Maximes. English

OCLC:

45147565