Contes traduits de l'anglois
Contributors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Bathurst, Richard, d. 1762; Warton, Joseph, 1722-1800; Blavet, Jean-Louis, 1719-1809
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840
Publisher: Duchesne
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Londres; Paris
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: English literature; Translations into French; Early works to 1800; English essays
Notes: Translated from the English: 'The adventurer' : originally published in 140 numbers from November 7, 1752, to March 9, 1754, with John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst and Joseph Warton as the principal contributors -- ESTC.

None of the works translated are by Johnson. Cf. Fleeman.

Translated by Jean-Louis Blavet.

Probably printed in Paris.--ESTC.

Signatures: pi² A-H¹²; v.2: pi² A-F¹² G⁶.

Title of each v. within ornamental border.

Each v. has woodcut title vignette.

Work of fiction.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Préface du traducteur. Histoire d'Eugènio. Histoire trouvèe dans les papiers d'une jeune etrangere, morte à Amiens; title: v. 2. Les martyrs de la dissimulation. Pöete converti par son expérience, sur l'article d'une autre vie. Histoire de Nannette. Histoire d'Agamus, pere de Nannette. Extrait d'un livre Anglois, intitulé, l'Imbécile de qualité.