Essai sur la lecture, et sur la bibliomanie : où il est traité du choix, du bon usage, & de l'abus de livres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollioud de Mermet, Louis, 1709-1794.

Contributor:

Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Essai sur la lecture

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Early works to 1800.

Books and reading.

Bibliomania--Early works to 1800.

Bibliomania.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 125 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 111 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam ; Et A Lyon : Chez Pierre Duplain l'ainé, libraire de l'Académie ..., 1765.

Notes:

Title from half-title; imprint from special t.p. of first work.

The De la bibliomanie, originally published in 1761, is a reissue of that edition.

Signatures: pi1 ã⁸ A-H⁸, ²A-G⁸ (H8 blank).

Both works have special t.p.'s, and separate pagination and signatures.

Woodcuts: initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

Cited in:

BN XV, col. 346

NUC LXIV, p. 688

Contains:

Bollioud de Mermet, Louis, 1709-1794. De la bibliomanie.

OCLC:

187480429