L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Rêve s'il fût jamais
Publisher: [François Grasset & Compagnie]
Published: 1772
Place of publication: A Londres [i.e. ? Lausanne]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.
Notes: Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771.

Authorship from Weller; actual place of publication and printer from Wilkie.

One of two editions in octavo with 402 pages of text published in 1772.

Title ornament.

Signatures: *⁸ (-*4.5) A-2B⁸ 2C⁸ (*1 verso, *2 verso, 2C2 blank). Leaf *6 signed as: "*4"

Page 216 misnumb: "16"

Cf. Weller, E.O.  Falsche Druckorte 2: p. 188.

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

Martin, A.A.  Bib. du genre romanesque français, 71.36.

Higgs, H.  Bib. of economics, 5618.

Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440, 1772.3.

English short title catalogue N016311.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary paper wrappers, slightly trimmed.