Mort d'Abel
Subtitle: poëme de Gessner
By: traduit par Hubert [sic] ; édition ornée d'estampes imprimées en couleur, d'après les dessins de M. Monsiau, peintre de l'Académie
Contributors: Huber, M. (Michel), 1727-1804, translator; Monsiaux, Nicolas André, 1754-1837, illustrator; Colibert, Nicolas, 1750-1806, engraver; Clément, Alexandre, 1775-1808, engraver; Cazenave, J.-F. (J. -Frédéric), 1770?-1843? engraver; Defer de Maisonneuve, André, 1749-1795, bookseller
Publisher: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, rue du Foin S. Jacques
Published: 1793
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Tod Abels
Notes: Translation of: Der Tod Abels.

Illustrations: 6 full-page stipple engravings in color (à la poupée by N. Colibert, A. Clément and J.F. Cazenave after N.A. Monsiau).

Signatures: A-V⁴ X².

Error in pagination: p. 6 numbered 8.

Rare Book copy: The six plates in this copy are before numbers; two have the artist's and engraver's name; three have only the engraver's name.

Rare Book copy: Large-margined copy.

Rare Book copy: Contemporary marbled calf binding with gilt floral and leaf borders; turn-ins gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; rebacked with original spine and morocco lettering pieces; later slipcase.

Leemann-van Elck, P. Salomon Gessner, 699

Cohen, H. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (6e éd.), col. 436