Shelfmark
Gn.8.23
Author
Title
Nouveaux dialogues des morts, avec des contes & fables, composé l'education d'un prince. Par seu messire F. D. S. D. L. M. Fénelon, précepteur de messeigneurs les Enfans de France, & depuis archevêque duc de Cambrai, &c.
Edition
Nouvelle edition, corrigée & augmentée de diverses pieces [sic].
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Amsterdam, : Chez J. Wetstein., MDCCXLV. [1745]
Physical description
2 v. in 1 ([18], 212; [10], 172 p., [2] leafs of plates) : ill. ; 8vo.
Note
Engraved frontispiece precedes each volume.
Note
Both t.p. printed in red and black.
Note
Engraved vignette on both t.p., of printer's device with motto 'Terar dum prosim'.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials.
Provenance
Early 19th century ownership inscription on front flyleaf: Rupert Ingram à Londres, chez Mrs Ingrams, Three tun court, Miles's Lane, Cannon Street.
Binding
Contemporary English brown spattered sheep; gold tooled roll along board edges; gold tooled single fillet on spine; five raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Some French words and their English equivalents copied out in red ink in an 18th century hand on the rear flyleaf.
Subject
Dialogues, French.
Subject
Education of princes Early works to 1800.
Subject
Conduct of life Early works to 1800.
Subject
Fables.
Added entry--name
Wetstein, Jacobus, fl. 1727 - 1777 printer.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Identifier
B29104