La nouvelle lune, ou, Histoire de Pœquilon / par M. Le B.***.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Bret, Monsieur (Alexis-Jean), 1693-1772?.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.

Language:

French

Genre:

Advertisements -- France -- Paris -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Nouvelle lune

Histoire de Pœquilon

Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam ; Et se trouve à Lille : Chez J.B. Henry, imprimeur-libraire ... ; [A Paris]: [Chez Durant, Saillant, De Hansy, le jeune, Lalain, Gauguery, libarires], MDCCLXX [1770]

Notes:

Attributed to Alexis-Jean Le Bret by Barbier.

Names of Parisian booksellers appear on versos of title-pages.

A leaf advertising this title for sale in Paris by De Hansy, le jeune, has been inserted before the half-title of pt. 1.

Gay (III:389-390) and Cioranescu (38103) cite a 1768 ed.; its actual existence is doubtful. Cf. Bib. du genre romanesque français, 70.R.40 and 68.38.

Pagination: pt. 1: [6], viij, 191, [1] p.; pt. 2: [4], 165, [1] p.

Signatures: pt. 1: pi⁶(pi1+chi1) A-H¹²; pt. 2: pi² A-F¹² G¹²(-G12).

First gathering of pt. 1 has vertical chain-lines.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.

Penn Libraries copy bound in one vol. Pp. 169-[192] of pt. 1 misbound at end of pt. 2.

Cited in:

Martin, A. Bib. du genre romanesque français, 70.R.40; 68.38

Barbier, A. Ouvrages anonymes, III, col. 554-555

OCLC:

10699077