Mémoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de la République des lettres en France, depuis MDCCLXII jusqu'a nos jours; ou journal d'un observateur, contenant les analyses des pieces de théatre qui ont paru durant cet intervalle; les relations des assemblées littéraires; les notices des livres nouveau, clandestines, prohibés; les pieces fugitives rares ou manuscrites, en prose ou en vers; les vaudevilles sur cour, les anecdotes & bons mots; les eloges des savants, des artistes, des hommes de lettres morts, &c. &c. &c. ... .
Mairobert, Mathieu François Pidanzat de,1727-1779.
Bachaumont, Louis Petit de,1690-1771.
A Londres, : Chez John Adamson.,
M. DCC. LXXXIV.. [1784]
Anonymous. By Louis Petit de Bachaumont; continued by M. F. Pidansat de Mairobert and others.
In this edition "journal" in the title is longer than the "d'un observateur" line below it, the "d" of "d'un" is slightly dropped; the words "en France" are in solid letters; and the "M" of the imprint date is punctuated "M.", while the imprint date is beneath a single rule, which ends under the "n" of "Adamson".
The imprint is false; printed on the continent, possibly in Geneva.
Volumes 1-7, 9-18, 22-24 dated 1784. Volume 8 dated 1785. Volumes 19-21 dated 1783. Volumes 25-36 originally published 1786-1789, reprinted 1970.
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