The busy body, or Successful spy : being the entertaining history of Mons. Bigand, a man infinitely inquisitive and enterprizing, even to rashness, which unhappy faculties nevertheless, instead of ruining, raised him from the lowest obscurity to a most splendid fortune : interspers'd with several humorous stories : the whole containing a great variety of adventures equally instructive and diverting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de, 1701-1784.

Contributor:

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mouche, ou Les aventures de M. Bigand. English. 1742

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by James Hoey ..., [1770?]

Notes:

Translation of: La mouche, ou Les aventures de M. Bigand, published anonymously. By the Chevalier de Mouhy. Cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, v. 3, col. 369.

Printing date suggested by ESTC; the printer, James Hoey, was active 1765-1774.

Advertisements: v. 1, last 2 leaves; v. 2, last 2 leaves.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) N15280

Beasley, J.C. Prose fiction pub. in England, 1740-1749, 106a

OCLC:

249078254