The characters, or, The manners of the age. By Monsieur de la Bruyere, of the French academy. Made English by several hands. With the characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek, and a prefatory discourse to them, by Monsieur de la Bruyere.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

La Bruyère, Jean de, 1645-1696.

Contributor:

Theophrastus.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1835:3.

Standardized Title:

Caractères. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Character sketches.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 172, 161-363 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, xviii, 44 pages, 2 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

The second edition, corrected throughout, and enlarged. With the key inserted in the margent.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Bullord, and sold by John Nicholson, at the Kings Arms in Little Britain; and Tho. Newborough, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1700.

Notes:

A translation of: La Bruyère, Jean de. Caractères.

With a leaf of advertisement tipped in, facing the title page.

Pages 161-172 repeated in pagination, text is continuous.

"The moral characters of Theophrastus" with special t.p. dated 1700.

With a final leaf of advertisement.

Signatures: pi [A]4 B-L [M]6 M-Aa Bb7 Aa-Dd.

In the signature collation the first group of leaves labeled "M" ([M1-M4]) are contained within square brackets.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1835:3). s1988 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) L105

Related Work:

Theophrastus. Characters. English

OCLC:

55721847