COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Author:
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 1740-1814.
Author (contributor):
French Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 1740-1814.
Title:
L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. : Rêve s'il en fût jamais; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe.
Publisher:
by Poinçot; Changuion
Begin Publication Date:
1786
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991009073909706966
Permanent Call Number:
E786 .M555a
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 83-10
Uniform Resource Identifier:
Subjects:
Utopias.
General Note:
Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume.; Authorship from Barbier; actual places of printing and distribution and printer and distributor from Wilkie. Preface (v. 1: p. vij) signed: "l'Auteur de l'An 2440."; Four of eight states of the edition in octavo published in 1786; for the first time, the text is printed in 3 volumes. The states differ from each other in various errors in paging.; Vignette on title pages.; Signatures: v. 1: a⁸ A-2A⁸ (-2A⁸; a1 verso, a4 verso blank); v. 2: pi² A-2A⁸ (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, 2A8 verso blank; leaf L4 signed as: "L2"); v. 3: pi² A-T⁸ V⁶ (-V6; pi1 verso, pi2 verso blank; leaf S3 signed as: "S5"); Errors in paging, common to states 1-4: v. 2: p. 251 misnumb.: "521"; p. 291 misnumb.: "191"; p. 357 misnumb.: "157"; v. 3: p. 73 misnumb.: "74"; p. 260 misnumb.: "360"; p. 269 misnumb.: "369"; Plates (3) unnumbered, serving as frontispieces for v. 1-3. Plates of the four copies studied belong to the "second suite", with captions in italics (see Wilkie); Contains references to events and people in the Americas.; Includes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (v. 3: p. 218-312. 1 plate (frontispiece)), published here for the first time.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (83-10), bound in contemporary tree calf, with green spines, imperfect: lacks half-titles v. 1-3. This copy represents state 1 (correct paging of v. 1: p. 125; v. 3: p. 134-135 misnumb: "135, 134"; v. 3: p. 191 misnumb.: "190"; v. 3: p. 250 first digit "2" printed in a line above the two other digits); John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (83-90) bound in contemporary calf. This copy represents state 2 (v. 1: p. 125 misnumb: "12"; v. 3: p. 106 first digit "1" printed in a line above the other two digits; v. 3: p. 134-135 misnumb.: "135, 134"; v. 3: p. 191 misnumb.: "190"); John Carter Brown Library copy 3 (83-22) bound in contemporary calf. This copy represents state 3 (v. 1: p. 125 misnumb.: "12"; v. 3: correct paging of p. 134-135 and of p. 191; v. 3: p. 304 misnumb.: "306"); John Carter Brown Library copy 4 (83-125), bound in contemporary quarter calf and paper boards, imperfect: lacks half title v. 2. This copy represents state 4 (correct paging of v. 1: p. 125; v. 3: p. 134-135 misnumb.: "135, 134"; correct paging of v. 3: p. 191; v. 3: p. 304 misnumb.: "306")