L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Rêve s'il en fût jamais
Edition: Nouvelle edition, / revue & corrigée par l'auteur, qui a jugé à propos de refondre le chapitre de la Bibliotheque du Roi.
Publisher: [François Grasset & Compagnie]
Published: 1776
Place of publication: A Londres [i.e. Lausanne?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.
Notes: Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771.

"Nouvelle edition" first published London [i.e. Lausanne?], 1774, with 410 pages of text.

Authorship and actual place of publication and publisher from Wilkie.

Second of two states of the "Nouvelle edition" with 382 pages of text published in 1776.

Title ornament.

Signatures: *⁸ (-*5-*8) A-Z⁸ 2A⁴ (2A3 + *5-*8; *1 verso, *2 verso blank)

Errors in paging; p. 320 correctly numbered (p. "220" in first state)

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

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

Canney & Knott 11523.

Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440, 1776.2b.

English short title catalogue N030034.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary quarter calf and paper boards.