- Title Information
- Non Sort
- L'
- Title
- an deux mille quatre cent quarante
- Subtitle
- Rêve s'il en fût jamais; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe
- Title Information:
Alternative
- Title
- An 2440
- Title Information:
Alternative
- Title
- Homme de fer, songe
- Name:
Personal
(usage="primary")
- Name Part
- Mercier, Louis-Sébastien
- Name Part:
Date
- 1740-1814
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Mercier, Louis-Sébastien
- Name Part:
Date
- 1740-1814
- Type of Resource
- text
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- ne
- Place
- Place Term:
Text
- Amsterdam
- Place
- Place Term:
Text
- distributed in Paris
- Publisher
- Changuion
- Publisher
- by Poinçot]
- Date Issued
- 1786
- edition
- Nouvelle édition avec figures. Tome premier [-troisieme]
- Issuance
- monographic
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- fre
- Physical Description
- Form (marcform)
- print
- Extent
- 3 v. (v. 1: xvj, 380, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 381, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [4], 312, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Note
- Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume.
- Note
- 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."
- Note
- 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.
- Note
- Vignette on title pages.
- Note
- 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")
- Note
- 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"
- Note
- 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)
- Note
- Contains references to events and people in the Americas.
- Note
- Includes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (v. 3: p. 218-312. 1 plate (frontispiece)), published here for the first time.
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Utopias
- Related Item:
Is Referenced By
- Title Information
- Title
- Martin, A.A. Bib. du genre romanesque français,
- Part
- Part Detail:
Part
- Part Number
- 71.36
- Related Item:
Is Referenced By
- Title Information
- Title
- Wilkie, E.C. Mercier's L'an 2440,
- Part
- Part Detail:
Part
- Part Number
- 1786.1a, 1786.1b, 1786.1c, 1786.1d
- Related Item:
Is Referenced By
- Title Information
- Title
- Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes,
- Part
- Part Detail:
Part
- Part Number
- 682
- Related Item
- Title Information
- Title
- Homme de fer, songe
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Mercier, Louis-Sébastien,
- Name Part:
Date
- 1740-1814
- Record Information
- descriptionStandard
- aacr
- Record Content Source (marcorg)
- RPJCB
- Record Creation Date
(encoding="marc")
- 900615
- Record Change Date
(encoding="iso8601")
- 19940906000000.0
- Record Identifier
(source="CStRLIN")
- RIBR90-B217
- Origin of Record
- Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl
(Revision 1.106 2014/12/19)
- Identifier:
InternetArchive
- landeuxmillequat01merc_3