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Saül et David : tragédie en cinq actes / d'après l'anglais, intitulé, The man after God's own heart.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BS580.D3 A64 1768
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, 1694-1778.
- Standardized Title:
- Saül
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- David, King of Israel--Drama.
- David.
- Saul, King of Israel--Drama.
- Saul.
- Saul, King of Israel.
- David, King of Israel.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932 (bookplate) (RBC copy)
- Hookham (London, England) (bookplate) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 56 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- uiL. d&A. 8.e? (7(6 (3) 1760 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Imprimé chez Robert Freeman, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1760.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A⁴ B-D⁸.
- Without pagination.
- Voltaire's Saul was written independently of Peter Annet's and not in fact translated or adapted from the English as stated on title page. Cf. Voltaire. Collected works (1968) v. 56A.
- False imprint. Work was issued with Annet's "David ou l'Histoire de l'homme selon le coeur de Dieu" ... (ESTC T106535) which was actually printed in Amsterdam 1768 on the press of Marc-Michel Rey. Cf. ESTC T106535 and STCN.
- Title page signed A1.
- Statement of responsibility precedes imprint on title page.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has small bookplate of Lytton Strachey designed by artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932).
- RBC copy also with trade label from "Hookham's Circulating Library," established in 1764 by bookseller and publisher Thomas Hookham (ca. 1739-1819) as part of his London business "Hookham." The oval engraved label reads: At Hookham's Original Circulating Library. Old Bond Street, opposite Stafford Street. May be had books, plays, pamphlets and all the new publications both English & French, stationary wares of all sorts. Visiting tickets, compliment cards, book plates, &c neatly engraved and printed. Book binding in all its branches.
- Cited in:
- Bengesco, G. Voltaire, 251
- ESTC N71660
- Voltaire. Collected works, 68L
- BN Voltaire, c 1416 (II)
- STCN 242936997
- OCLC:
- 178224701
- Bound With:
- Bound with (as issued): Annet, Peter. David, ou, l'histoire de l'homme selon le coeur de Dieu. A Londres : [s.n.], MDCCLXVIII [1768] [i.e. Amsterdam : Rey], 1768. Cf. Bengesco, BN Voltaire.
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