Discourses on the deceitfulness of humane virtues
By: by Monsieur Esprit, of the French Academy at Paris : done out of French by William Beauvoir ... ; to which is added, the Duke de la Rochefoucaut's Moral reflections
Contributors: Beauvoir, William de, translator; Bell, Andrew, -1720?, bookseller; Round, James, -1745, bookseller; Smith, Richard, -approximately 1720, bookseller; La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for And. Bell ..., R. Smith ..., and J. Round ...
Published: 1706
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Virtue; Early works to 1800; Ethics; Quotations, maxims; Conduct of life
Other titles: Discourses on the deceitfulness of human virtues; Moral reflections and maxims, written by the late Duke de la Rochefoucauld : newly made English from the Paris edition
Work titles: Fausseté des vertus humaines
Notes: Translations of La fausseté des vertus humaines by Jacques Esprit and of Réflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales by François de la Rochefoucauld.

Errata: verso of leaf A8.

The Moral reflections has special added title page and separate pagination sequence, and includes an index.

Signatures: A⁸ B⁸( -B1+'B'1) C-O⁸ P⁴ Q⁸( -Q1+'Q'1) R-2E⁸ chi² a⁸ *A-*F⁸ *G² *H⁴.

Leaves *A2-*A4 signed A2-A4; leaves *C2-*C4 signed C2-C4; leaves *H1-*H2 signed 'H'1-H2.

With side-notes.

Errors in pagination: in the first sequence, numbers 212-219 omitted, p. 226-227 misnumbered 326 & 237, respectively, p. 279 misnumbered 729; in the second sequence, numbers 77-80 repeated in sequence, p. 82-83 misnumbered 80-81, p. 86-87 misnumbered 84-85, p. 90-91 misnumbered 88-89.

English short title catalogue, T108969

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.