L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Rêve s'il en fût jamais; suivi de L'homme de fer, songe
By: Par L.S. Mercier, ..
Edition: Nouvelle edition, / imprimée sous les yeux de l'auteur.
Publisher: chez Lepetit jeune et Gerard, libraires, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, no. 44; et au Palais du Tribunat, Galeries de bois, no. 223.
Published: 1801
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.; Homme de fer, songe.
Notes: Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771, in one volume.

A new issue, of the Paris, 1798, edition.

Second of three states, each differing in paging errors.

Imprint on title page v. 2 has address of second publisher as "Galeriesde bois", and imprint on title page v. 3 has "an" for "au"

Exact Gregorian date of publication not available.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² (±pi1.2) a-b⁸ c⁴ A-X⁸ Y⁶ (pi1 verso, pi2 verso blank); v. 2: pi² (± pi1.2) A-X⁸ Y⁶ (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, Y6 blank); v. 3: pi² (±pi1.2) A-Y⁸ (-Y8; pi1 verso, pi2 verso, Y7 verso blank)

Volume 1: p. 337-348 misnumb.: "345-356"; v. 2: p. 313 misnumb.: "213"; v. 3: p. 311 misnumb.: "31"

Plates (4) unnumbered; included is a portrait of the author, Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

Includes: "L'homme de fer, songe." (v. 3: p. 238-326). -- "Opinion de L.S. Mercier, représentation du peuple, sur les sépultures privées." (v. 3: p. 327-340). -- "Notice des œuvres complètes de L.S. Mercier, ... (v. 3: p. 343-349)

Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440, 1801-1802.b.