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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante. : R&#xEA;ve s'il en f&#xFB;t jamais; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe.</dc:title><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
    Mercier, Louis-S&#xE9;bastien,
    1740-1814.
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    Mercier, Louis-S&#xE9;bastien,
    1740-1814.
    Homme de fer, songe.
  </dc:creator><dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">text</dc:type><dc:publisher xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">[Amsterdam : Changuion ; distributed in Paris : by Poin&#xE7;ot],</dc:publisher><dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">1786.</dc:date><dc:language xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">fre</dc:language><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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."</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Vignette on title pages.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Signatures: v. 1: a&#x2078; A-2A&#x2078; (-2A&#x2078;; a1 verso, a4 verso blank); v. 2: pi&#xB2; A-2A&#x2078; (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, 2A8 verso blank; leaf L4 signed as: "L2"); v. 3: pi&#xB2; A-T&#x2078; V&#x2076; (-V6; pi1 verso, pi2 verso blank; leaf S3 signed as: "S5")</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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"</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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)</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Contains references to events and people in the Americas.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Includes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (v. 3: p. 218-312. 1 plate (frontispiece)), published here for the first time.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Martin, A.A.  Bib. du genre romanesque fran&#xE7;ais,</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440,</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes,</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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)</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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")</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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")</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">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")</dc:description><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Utopias.</dc:subject></oai_dc:dc>