Memoires de l'Academie des colporteurs
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840
Publisher: De l'Impr. ordinaire de l'Academie
Published: 1748
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Booksellers and bookselling; Early works to 1800
Notes: Published anonymously. By Anne Claude Philippe, comte de Caylus. See Barbier, Cioranescu.

The imprint is fictitious. See Weller.

Illustrations: 10 full-page engravings, unsigned; one ("Le colporteur") used as frontispiece and duplicated in text, another (facing p. 156) is engraved t.p.

Signatures: a⁴ A-V⁸.

Title in red and black with engraved armorial device ("Communauté des Libraires Imprimeurs de Paris 1748. Colporteur"); woodcut tail-pieces and initials.