La cassette verte de Monsieur de Sartine, trouvée chez Mademoiselle du Thé.
Contributors: Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801.; Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886, former owner.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress); Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Cinquième edition revue & corrigée sur celles de Leipsic & d'Amsterdam.
Publisher: Chez la veuve Whiskerfeld ...
Published: 1779
Place of publication: A la Haye [i.e. London]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Sartine, Antoine de, comte d'Alby, 1729-1801 -- Humor; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Humor; France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Humor; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France -- Humor; France -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Humor; United States -- Foreign relations -- Humor
Genres: Humor.
Notes: Issued anonymously. Barbier names Richard Tickell as author.
Simultaneously published in English as: The green box of Monsieur de Sartine, found at Mademoiselle du The's lodgings.
"I am uncertain whether ... [the] English edition or the so-called French original first appeared in print. It contains a number of spurious letters of [Benjamin] Franklin, and the whole is a satire on the French alliance"--Ford, 973.
Actual place of publication from Ford. The publisher statement is also probably fictitious.
Signatures: [A]² B-K⁴.
LC copy imperfect: half title wanting. Title page printed in red and black.
Ford, P.L.  Franklin bibliography, 975 (variant)
Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, II, 506f
ESTC T66577