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Le grand mistere, ou, L'art de mediter sur la garderobe / par l'ingenieux docteur Swift ; Pensées hazardées sur les etudes, la grammaire, la rethorique et la poëtique ; par M.G.L. Le Sage.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Teerink Collection PR3291.A1 G714 1729
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Grand mystery. French.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Art de mediter sur la garderobe
- Grand mistere
- Pensées hazardées sur les etudes, la grammaire, la rethorique et la poëtique
- Place of Publication:
- A La Haye : Chez Jean van Duren, 1729.
- Notes:
- Two parts in one volume; each part has special t.p., with imprint dated 1729. The first part published later (1743) under title: L'art de mediter sur la chaise percée.
- Probably a translation of The grand mystery, or Art of meditating over an house of office, restor'd and unveil'd; after the manner of the ingenious Dr. S--ft ... London, 1726. Cf. "Doubtful and supposititious works." Bibl. comp. by W.S. Jackson in Prose works of Swift, ed. by T. Scott. 1908, v. 12, p. 224; also Lowndes, Manual, p. 2561; and Barbier, v. 2, c. 563. Translated by Desfontaines.
- Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁶ (O6 blank).
- Title printed in red and black.
- Woodcuts: device; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
- "Catalogue des livres imprimez par Jean van Duren" on p. [194]-218.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- Cited in:
- Teerink, H. Swift, 933
- Swift, J. Prose works, ed. by T.Scott, XII, p. 224
- Contains:
- Le Sage, George-Louis, 1676-1759. Pensées hazardées sur les etudes, la grammaire, la rethorique, et la poëtique.
- OCLC:
- 15699725
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