Le colporteur
Subtitle: histoire morale et critique
By: par M. de Chevrier
Contributors: Nourse, J. (John), -1780, bookseller
Publisher: Chez Jean Nourse
Published: 1762
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Peddlers; Early works to 1800; Peddling; Epistolaries
Notes: Imprint is false. Probably published in Bruxelles. Not the 1st edition, as described by Gillet, but has the same imprint (fictitious) and number of pages. The 1st edition, printed at The Hague, was published in 1762 (not 1753, as sometimes stated, as in Quérard, page 186) Cf. M Gillet, Notice historique et bibliographique sur Chevrier (Académie de Stanislas. Mémoires, 1863, p. [135]-313) ; also Ad. van Bever's ed. of Le colporteur, Paris, 1914

In this 228 page edition the word "An" in the imprint is capitalized and the double rule begins under the "z" of "chez."

Martin, A. Bibliographie du genre romanesque français, 1751-1800, 62.11

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), N63059