Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'état
Subtitle: ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778
Contributors: Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: [s.n.], MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Published: 1782
Place of publication: A Hambourg
Language: fre
Subjects: Prisons -- France -- History -- 18th century.; Prisons -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: With a final errata leaf.

John Adams Library copy incomplete: lacking v. 2.

John Adams Library copy slightly mutilated: upper right corner of first eighteen pages and last thirty-seven pages torn.

The rare first edition, as described in Barbier.

Authorship disputed by some bibliographers.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.