The dictionary historical and critical of Mr Peter Bayle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706, author.

Contributor:

Desmaizeaux, Pierre, 1673?-1745, writer of supplementary textual content.

Midwinter, D. (Daniel), -1757, bookseller.

Brotherton, John, active 1716-1753, bookseller.

Smith, James., Engraver.

James, John and Paul Knapton (Firm), bookseller.

Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Dictionnaire historique et critique. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Biography--Early works to 1800.

Biography.

History--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

History.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Biographies.

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Van Kirk, S. Frances (donor) (RBC copy)

Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Jones, Thomas (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Edwards, J. D. (autograph) (Day Sterne Collection copy)

Physical Description:

5 volumes : portrait ; 37 cm (folio)

Edition:

The second edition, carefully collated with the several editions of the original, in which many passages are restored, and the whole greatly augmented, particularly with a translation of the quotations from eminent writers in various languages / to which is prefixed The life of the author, revised, corrected and enlarged, by Mr. Des Maizeaux ...

Distribution:

London : Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, D. Midwinter, J. Brotherton ... [and 27 others], MDCCXXXIV-MDCCXXXVIII. [1734-1738]

Other Title:

Half title: Mr. Bayle's historical and critical dictionary

Fingerprint:

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Contents:

Volume 1. A-Bi.

volume 2. Bi-E.

volume 3. F-L.

volume 4. M-R.

volume 5. S-Z. An Historical Discourse On the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. Critical remarks [by A. de Tricaud and A. Gaudin] upon the new edition of Moreri's historical dictionary, Published in the year 1704. With A preface and several Observations written by Mr. Bayle, for the use of the new edition of that dictionary. Translated into English from the third edition of the Original French. To which are added, New Observations upon these Critical Remarks, and on the edition of Moreri printed in the year 1725. A Dissertation concerning the book of Stephanus Junius Brutus, Printed in the year 1579. A Dissertation concerning defamatory libels. A Dissertation concerning the HIppomanes. A Dissertation upon the day. A dissertation Which was printed before some essays or Fragments of this work in the year MDCXCII, Under the title of, A Project of a Critical Dictionary ... Remarks on a Pamphlet intituled, The judgment of the public, and particularly of the Abbot Renaudot, on Mr. Bayle's Critical Dictionary. Explanations Concerning certain things dispersed in this Dictionary, which may be reduced to four general heads: I. The Praises bestowed on persons who denied either the providence or the existence of GOD II. The objections of the Manichees. III. The objections of the Sceptics. IV. Obscenities.

Notes:

List of booksellers in imprint varies. See ESTC for transcriptions.

Signatures: volume 1: pi² (A)-(B)² *-4*² 5*1 a-2i² A-9R² ; volume 2: pi² A-10N² ; volume 3: pi² A-11N² [11O]1 ; volume 4: pi² A-11F² ; volume 5: pi² A-10G² 10H²(10H1+(10I)-(10L)² (10M)1) 10I-11U² 11X1 .

Pagination: volume 1: [12], 17, [1], cxxviii, 803, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates ; volume 2: [4], 880 pages ; volume 3: [4], 973, [1] pages ; volume 4: [2], 944 pages ; volume 5: [2], 872, 143, [1] pages.

Engraved portrait (frontispiece plate of volume 1).

Woodcut title ornaments, initials, factotum, head- and tail-pieces.

Titles in red and black.

With side-glosses.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.

Day Sterne Collection copy (RBC copy 2): each volume has dated 19th-century autograph ("Tho: Jones. Bishops Castle 1807.") on half-title leaf.

Day Sterne Collection copy (RBC copy 2): volume 1 has early autograph ("J D Edwards. A.M.") on front free endpaper.

Day Sterne Collection copy (RBC copy 2): volume 5 has dried boutonnière laid in before leaf 5C1.

Day Sterne Collection copy (RBC copy 2): volume 2: tail outer corner of leaf 5H2 torn and mended; volume 5: blank leaf at beginning of volume partially detached.

Athenaeum copy: Clarence H. Clark bookplate on all volumes.

Athenaeum copy: Volume 1 contains two biographical index clippings on front pastedown.

Athenaeum copy: Volume 2 missing t.p.

Cited in:

ESTC T143097

Thacher, II, p. 97 (Miscellanea)

Other Format:

Online version: Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706. Dictionnaire historique et critique. English. Dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle.

OCLC:

3693852