Recueil des oeuvres de madame Du Bocage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Boccage, Madame (Marie-Anne), 1710-1802, author.

Contributor:

Frères Périsse, bookseller.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost--Paraphrases--Early works to 1800.

Milton, John.

Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788. Tod Abels--Paraphrases--Early works to 1800.

Gessner, Salomon.

Paradise lost (Milton, John).

Tod Abels (Gessner, Salomon).

Genre:

Paraphrases.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy PQ1981 .D48 1762)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy PQ1981 .D48 1762)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustration, portrait ; 18 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

e,au s.e, t.x. 31L' 3 1762A 2

i.er tei- e-de teUn (3) 1762 (A) v.3

Place of Publication:

Lyon : Chez les Freres Perisse, 1762.

Contents:

t. 1. Le paradis terrestre ; Les amazones, tragedie en cinq actes ; Le temple de la renommée, poème de monsieur Pope, traduit en vers françois ; Oraison funebre du prince Eugene de Savoye par le cardinal Passionei, traduite de l'italien

t. 2. La Colombiade, ou La foi portée au Nouveau Monde ; La congiura di Valstein, tradotta dal francese in italiano

t. 3. Lettres sur l'Angleterre, la Hollande et l'Italie.

Notes:

Signatures: t. 1: a⁴ A-V⁸ X² ; t. 2: a⁴ A⁸(-A1) B-V⁸ X⁴ ; t. 3: A-2B⁸ 2C⁶.

Pagination: t. 1: viij, 324 pages, [3] leaves of plates ; t. 2: viij, 3-328 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; t. 3: 408, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates.

Engraved plates: title leaf of each volume, portrait of the author, and illustration.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.

Errata at end of t. 3.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy PQ1981 .D48 1762 imperfect: t. 2 only. Title leaf wanting with the title leaf from t. 3 bound in its place with manuscript correction in pencil to tome number. Direction line on leaf a1r annotated in pencil. Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran. Pages 13-14 detached, closely cropped, and laid in.

OCLC:

5225167