L'Economia della vita umana tratta da um manoscritto indiano di un brammano antico
By: opera dall'inglese infrancese, e dal freancese in italiano tradotta
Publisher: Per Beniamino Sirtori, stampatore acivescovile
Published: 1752
Place of publication: In Milano
Language: ita
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Maxims
Other titles: Economia della vita umana
Work titles: Economy of human life
Notes: Although this work was for a time attributed to Lord Chesterfield (see Halkett & Laing, and the DNB article on Dodsley), modern scholarship favors Dodsley. See Solomon, H.M. The rise of Robert Dodsley. Carbondale, Ill., 1996, p. 141, and p. 300-301, n.69. See also Straus, R. Robert Dodsley, poet, publisher, & playwright. London, 1910, p. 169 ff., and Eddy, D.D. "Dodsley's Oeconomy of human life, 1750-1751," in Modern Philology, v. 85, no. 4 (May 1988), p. 460-479.

Date transposed, follows "In Milano" on t.p.

Signatures: *¹² 2*¹⁰ a-f¹² g¹⁴.

Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), IV, p. 237.

Signature dated 1853, illegible; Gerald M. Goldberg copy.

Bound in later red road, with red cloth boards and marbled endpapers.