L'an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Subtitle: Rêve s'il en fut jamais
Publisher: [Schwickert]
Published: 1772
Place of publication: A Londres [i.e. Leipzig]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: An 2440.
Notes: Originally published London [i.e. Amsterdam], 1771.

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

Edition in octavo with 458 pages of text published in 1772.

Signatures: )(⁶ A-2E⁸ 2F⁴ 2G² (-2G2; )(1 verso blank). Leaves )(3 and )(4 signed as: "):(3" and "):(4"; leaf C5 signed as: "D5"

Page 380 misnumb.: "680"

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.

Heinsius, W.  Romane, p. 15.

Wilkie, E.C.  Mercier's L'an 2440, 1772.5.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.