L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Rêve s'il en fût jamais
Publisher: [E. van Harrevelt]
Published: 1771
Place of publication: A Londres [i.e., Amsterdam]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.
Notes: Originally published under the (erroneous title) L'an deux mille deux cent quarante. Paris, 1771, but no copy with this title is extant today.

Authorship from Barbier; actual place of publication and publisher from Wilkie.

Second of four states of the first edition published under this title in 1771, with conjugate title page and London incorrectly given as place of publication.

Title ornament.

Signatures: *⁴ A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁴ (2C3 signed as: "C3"; *1 verso blank)

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

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

Negley, G.R.  Utopian lit., 722.

Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, 682.

Wilkie, E.C. Mercier's L'an 2440, 1771c.

English short title catalogue T162867.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary paper wrappers, untrimmed.