L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Reve s'il fut jamais
Publisher: [Walther]
Published: 1773
Place of publication: A Londres  [i.e. Dresden]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.
Notes: Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771.

Authorship from that established for previous edition; actual place of publication and publisher from Wilkie.

One of three states of the edition in duodecimo with 479 pages of text published in 1773.

Title vignette.

Signatures: a⁶ A-V¹² (a1 verso, a2 verso, V12 verso blank). Leaf a3 signed as: "aij"; leaf H6 signed as: "H5"; leaf P4 signed as: "P3"

Numerous errors in paging, including page 287 misnumb.: "278"; p. 412 misnumb.: "341"; p. 413 misnumb: "412"; p. 430 misnumb: "30"; p. 432 misnumb.: "424" (these misprinted page numbers are characteristic for the present state, distinguishing it from the other 2 states)

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

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

Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440, 1773.1a.

English short title catalogue N042524.