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    <mods:nonSort>L'</mods:nonSort>
    <mods:title>an deux mille quatre cent quarante</mods:title>
    <mods:subTitle>Rêve s'il en fût jamais; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe</mods:subTitle>
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    <mods:title>An 2440</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Homme de fer, songe</mods:title>
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  <mods:name type="personal" usage="primary">
    <mods:namePart>Mercier, Louis-Sébastien</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1740-1814</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Mercier, Louis-Sébastien</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1740-1814</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:place>
      <mods:placeTerm type="text">Amsterdam</mods:placeTerm>
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    <mods:place>
      <mods:placeTerm type="text">distributed in Paris</mods:placeTerm>
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    <mods:publisher>Changuion</mods:publisher>
    <mods:publisher>by Poinçot]</mods:publisher>
    <mods:dateIssued>1786</mods:dateIssued>
    <mods:edition>Nouvelle édition avec figures. Tome premier [-troisieme]</mods:edition>
    <mods:issuance>monographic</mods:issuance>
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    <mods:form authority="marcform">print</mods:form>
    <mods: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)</mods:extent>
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  <mods:note>Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume.</mods:note>
  <mods: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."</mods:note>
  <mods: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.</mods:note>
  <mods:note>Vignette on title pages.</mods:note>
  <mods: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")</mods:note>
  <mods: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"</mods:note>
  <mods: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)</mods:note>
  <mods:note>Contains references to events and people in the Americas.</mods:note>
  <mods:note>Includes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (v. 3: p. 218-312. 1 plate (frontispiece)), published here for the first time.</mods:note>
  <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
    <mods:topic>Utopias</mods:topic>
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    <mods:titleInfo>
      <mods:title>Martin, A.A.  Bib. du genre romanesque français,</mods:title>
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    <mods:part>
      <mods:detail type="part">
        <mods:number>71.36</mods:number>
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    <mods:titleInfo>
      <mods:title>Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440,</mods:title>
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    <mods:part>
      <mods:detail type="part">
        <mods:number>1786.1a, 1786.1b, 1786.1c, 1786.1d</mods:number>
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      <mods:title>Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes,</mods:title>
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        <mods:number>682</mods:number>
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      <mods:namePart>Mercier, Louis-Sébastien,</mods:namePart>
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