Lettres d'Hortense de Valsin à Eugénie de S. Firmin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polier de Bottens, Jeanne Françoise de, 1761-

Contributor:

Mourer, Jean, active 1782-1796, bookseller.

Debure, Guillaume, 1734-1820, bookseller.

Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

Language:

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

eses jer. mee- anme (3) 1788 (A) v.1

s,s, e-ne t.er rose (3) 1788 (A) v.2

Place of Publication:

[Lausanne] : Chez Jean Mourer libraire... à Lausanne ; [Paris] : Guillaume de Bure l'aîné libraire ... A Paris, 1788.

Notes:

Published anonymously; correspondents are fictitious. Written by Jeanne Françoise de Polier de Bottens. Cf. Barbier.

Signatures: v. 1: pi⁴(-pi1?) A-O¹² ; v. 2: pi² A-N¹² (leaf N12 blank)

Pagination: v. 1: [6], 333, [3] p. ; v. 2: [4], 309, [3] p.

Vol. 1 with half-title and final leaf containing errata; v. 2 with half-title and errata leaf inserted between leaves N11 and N12 (blank).

Woodcut head-piece and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

RBC copy imperfect: v. 1: leaf O12 wanting; v. 2: leaf N12 (blank) wanting.

RBC copy: each vol. bound in full contemporary tree calf; green-dyed spine; gold-tooled spine panels; brief title and volume number stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges; yellow endpapers; all edges yellow; red silk marker.

RBC copy: v. 1: left board damaged.

RBC copy: v. 2: leaves of gathering K bound in the following order: K2, K1, K4, K3, K6, K5, K8, K7, K10, K9, K12, K11.

Cited in:

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, II, 1249c

OCLC:

316097789