Les femmes de merite : histoires françoises.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yon, approximately 1720-approximately 1774, author.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Women--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Pontchartrain (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

[2], 203, [1] page ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

r-ne iete ..r- Etqu (3) 1759 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : [publisher not identified], mil sept cent cinquante neuf [1759]

Notes:

Anonymous. By Yon. See Barbier and Cioranescu.

Place of publication from Cioranescu.

Signatures: pi1 A-M⁸ N⁶.

Woodcut head-piece and initial.

Errata: Page 203.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound with: Lettres d'un citoyen de Genève. A Cologne ; Et se trouve à Paris : Au Cabinet littéraire, Pont Notre-Dame, près la Pompe, Magazin de Grangé & Dufour, MDCCLXIII [1763]

Singer-Mendenhall copy has early manuscript contents note in ink and later bibliographical note in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; manuscript note identifying the author in pencil on title leaf.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Christopher Edwards.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has bookplate of an unidentified former owner (de gueules, with an unidentifiable charge; crest of a comte with a full-figure owl[?]; the whole above a banner reading: PONTCHARTRAIN; signed: Aimée fecit.) on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Quérard, X, p. 553

Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 67896

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, II, col. 447

OCLC:

21854499