Lettres persanes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.

Contributor:

Marteau, Pierre.

Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Eighteenth century.

Iranians.

History.

France--History--18th century--Fiction.

France.

Iranians--France--Fiction.

Eighteenth century--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Maskelyne, Margaret (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

t.up r-e, sies Ludu (3) 1754 (R) v.1

ess. leas i-e. pose (3) 1754 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

A Cologne : Chez Pierre Marteau, Imprimeur-libraire, près le Collége des jésuites, MDCCLIV [1754]

Notes:

Fictitious imprint. Cf. Weller.

Signatures: t. 1: pi1 A-G¹² H² ; t. 2: A¹⁰ B-H¹² I¹⁰, ²A¹² B² (leaf I10 blank).

Pagination: t. 1: [2], 172 p. ; t. 2: 205, [3], 28 p.

Title ornaments; head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of Margaret Maskelyne (1735-1817; after 15 March 1753, Margaret, Baroness Clive of Plassey) on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in 1 vol. in contemporary full calf(?); 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-tooled red leather spine label ("LETTRES PERSANES").

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged.

Cited in:

Desgraves, L. Chronologie critique de la vie et des oeuvres de Montesquieu, 3692

Weller, E.O. Falsche Druckorte, II, p. 86

OCLC:

12001968