Adonis, ou Le bon negre
Subtitle: anecdote coloniale
By: Par J.B. Picquenard
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie de Didot jeune.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Blacks; Fiction; Slaves; Catalogs, Booksellers'; History
Other titles: Adonis.; Bon negre.
Notes: Verso of half-title page reads: A Paris, chez Didot jeune, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 22.

The novel takes place in Saint-Domingue at the beginning of 1791 at the moment of the beginning of the slave insurrections.

Signatures: [1]⁶ (1₂ verso blank) 2-23⁶ 24⁶ (24₆ blank)

Bookseller's advertisements for P.N.F. Didot appear on pages [3-9], 4th count.

Engraved printer's device on title page.

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression, 4272.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 62676.

Purchase; 2018; 19-207.