Lettres d'une Peruvienne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758, author.

Contributor:

Pissot, Catherine, -1753, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France--Social life and customs--18th century--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

France.

Peruvians--France--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Peruvians.

Women--France--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

False imprints (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[2], viij, 337, [1] pages ; 15 cm (12mo)

Edition:

[First edition]

Fingerprint:

neau e:i- ere. le*L (3) 1747 (Q)

Place of Publication:

A Peine [i.e. Paris] : [Catherine Pissot], [December 1747 or January 1748]

Notes:

Anonymous; attributed to Mme de Grafigny by Barbier.

First of 11 early undated editions of this work. Identified as P.1 by McEachern, it was published in Paris by Catherine Pissot with a false imprint in December 1747 or January 1748. Paper watermarked "D MALMANEDE". Leaf C3 is signed "C 3"; line 14 of page 260 reads: "redoublent mes regrets ; quel tré-". The title ornament is composed of 11 small ornaments (circle with 4 lobes and 4 branches) arranged in 4 rows of 5, 3, 2 and 1 ornaments to form an inverted triangle.

Signatures: pi1 a⁴ A-2E⁸/⁴ 2F1.

Type ornament factotum, head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Cited in:

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, II, column 1228

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 31765

European Americana 747/64

McEachern, J. "Mme. de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne.” In Eighteenth-century fiction, v. 9 (1996): 21-35, P.1 (page 25)

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 107093

Weller, E.O. Falsche Druckorte, II, page 120

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I’ll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 16

OCLC:

913751551