Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred. / Translated from the French, by W. Hooper, M.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 1740-1814.

Contributor:

Hooper, William.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Deux mille quatre cent quarante. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias.

Physical Description:

xi, [1], 360 p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Other Title:

Memoirs of the year 2500

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, : printed by Thomas Dobson, at the Stone-House, No[.] 41, South Second-Street., M.DCC.XCV. [1795]

Notes:

Translation, by William Hooper, of: L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771.

Authorship from Evans (including index by Bristol).

This translation originally published London, 1772.

Page 189 misnumb: "187".

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Title-page inscribed: "Presented to the Athenæum by Jno. R.C. Smith 1814."

Athenaeum copy: Signatures: A-Hh[superscript 6].

Cited in:

Evans 29068; index (v. 14): p. 248.

Negley, G.R. Utopian lit., 773.

Wilkie, E.C. Mercier's L'an 2440, 1795.1.

ESTC T131893.