Oeuvres mêlées de monsieur l'abbé Nadal ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nadal, Augustin, 1664-1740, author.

Contributor:

Roussel, H., illustrator.

Desplaces, Louis, 1682-1739, engraver.

Briasson, Antoine-Claude, 1700-1775, bookseller.

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800.

Racine, Jean.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy PQ2015 .N3 1738)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy PQ2015 .N3 1738)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Manufacture:

A Bruxelles : De l'imprimerie de George Frick, libraire ..., 1738.

Other Title:

Title of tome 3: Theatre de monsieur l'abbé Nadal ...

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Briasson ..., MDCCXXXVIII [1738]

Summary:

Includes letters, poetry, essays (some of them on Racine) and plays (in tome 3, which has title: Théâtre de monsieur l'abbé Nadal).

Notes:

Printer statement from colophon of tome 3. The place of printing is false and the printer's name a pseudonym; see entry for Georges Fricx in CERL Thesaurus.

Signatures: tome 1: a⁸ b-c⁴ A-2D⁸/⁴ ; tome 2: a⁸ B-R⁸/⁴ S-X⁴/⁸ Y-2H⁸/⁴ 2I⁴ ; tome 3: pi² A-2B⁸/⁴, ²A-F⁸/⁴ G⁶ H⁴ I⁶(-I6).

Engraved frontispieces (plates) for the plays in tome 3, one of them signed by L. Desplaces after H. Roussel.

Woodcut title ornaments, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Errata at end of tome 3.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy PQ2015 .N3 1738 imperfect: tome 2 only. Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Cited in:

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 47743 (v.1-2)

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 47744 (v.3)

OCLC:

810734832