L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Rêve s'il en fût jamais
Publisher: [E. van Harrevelt]
Published: 1772
Place of publication: A Londres [i.e. Amsterdam]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.
Notes: Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771.

Authorship from Weller; actual place of publication and publisher from Wilkie.

First of two editions with 416 pages of text published in 1772; the setting of type differs slightly, ornaments used as head- and tailpieces are different, and each of the two editions has a misprint of its own in paging.

Title ornament.

Signatures: *⁴ A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁴ (*1 verso blank)

Page 29 misnumb.: "26"

Cf. Weller, E.O.  Falsche Druckorte 2: p. 188.

Contains references to events and people in the Americas.

Martin, A.A.  Bib. du genre romanesque français, 71.36.

Higgs, H.  Bib. of economics, 5375.

Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440, 1772.1.

English short title catalogue N030035.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary half calf and paper boards, slightly trimmed.