Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe
Subtitle: ouvrage posthume
By: de M. F. ....
Contributors: Naigeon, Jacques André, 1738-1810; Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789; Lourdet
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1765
Place of publication: À Londres
Language: fre
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Free thought; Early works to 1800; Atheism
Other titles: Moïsade.
Notes: Attributed to Fréret in the Avis, but authorship much discussed. ESTC (RLIN) attributes to the baron d'Holbach, but this attribution is refuted by J. Vercruysse, Holbach, p. 38-39, which attributes the work to Fréret. There is a long discussion of the question and conclusion in favor of Fréret in the critical ed. of the Lettre by S. Landucci (Florence, 1986), p. 15-73.

Landucci (p. 420) dates this ed. 1765. Conlon, P.M. Siècle des lumières, dates this ed. 1766. ESTC (RLIN) gives 1768 as the probable date and notes the imprint is false; possibly printed in the Netherlands.

"La Moïsade" (probably by Frére, but sometimes attributed to Lourdet and wrongly attributed to Rousseau and to Voltaire) p. 289-312, is a criticism on the religious teaching of the Pentateuch.

Signatures: A-T⁸ V⁶(-V6).

Rare Book copy: Contemporary polished calf binding; triple gilt filet to covers; flat spine gilt in compartments; green morocco label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; green silk marker.

Rare Book copy: Contemporary heraldic bookplate from the Bibliothèque de l'Aussat, with the coronet and the crest blacked out in ink.

Errata on p. [1] at end; p. [2] at end blank.

Fréret, N. Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe (Firenze, 1986), p. 420

Conlon, P.M. Siècle des lumières, XIV, p. 436, 66:872

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T133130