L'homme sauvage
By: histoire traduite de --. Par M. Mercier
Contributors: Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 1740-1814
Publisher: chez la Veuve Duchesne, libraire, rue St. Jacques, au-dessous de la Fontaine St. Benôit, au Temple du Goût.
Published: 1767
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Utopias; Primitive societies; Fiction
Work titles: Der Wilde
Notes: Authorship disputed; according to Pusey, the present work is probably more influenced by Rousseau and Prévost than by Pfeil.

Translation, or adaptation, by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, of: Der Wilde, one of the stories forming part of the work: Versuch in moralischen Erzählungen. Leipzig, 1757.

Original edition, with approbation on p. 310.

There exists also another edition of the same year, published at Amsterdam [i.e. Paris], chez Zacharie.

Title vignette.

Signatures: A-N¹² (A1, A2 verso, A3 verso, N12 blank)

Cf. Chinard, G. L'Amérique et le rêve exotique dans la littérature française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1934, p.413.

Cf. Pusey, W.W. Louis-Sébastien Mercier in Germany. New York, 1939, p. 46.

Main character of novel is an American Indian.

Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 44548.

Quérard, J.M.  La France littéraire, 6: p. 62.

John Carter Brown Library copy, bound in contemporary calf, imperfect: lacks blank leaf A1.