The surprizing yet real and true voyages and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud. A French sea-captain. To which is added, The shipwreck. A sentimental and descriptive poem, in three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines of verse]
Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard,1737-1812.
Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell in Third-Street,
MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
"Occasional elegy."--p. 106-108, 2nd count.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [ii]; prospectus for Michaijah Towgood's A dissent from the Church of England fully justified, [4] p. at end.
Each work has separate title page and pagination. The first, attributed by Evans to Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle, is "Translated from the French by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Griffith," and has running title: The adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud.
Error in paging: p. 60, 2nd count, misnumbered 50.
The frontispiece, engraved by James Smither, is the only illustration. In some copies, the frontispiece is printed in red.
With an initial advertisement leaf.
ESTC
Evans,
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,