Lan Deux Mille Quatre Cent Quarante Reve Sil Fut Jamais Nouvelle Edition Revue Corrigee Par

by Louis Sebastien Mercier

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

A Londres i.e. Paris , 1774. Octavo, pp. iii-iv v-xii 1-410, early three-quarter black leather and marbled boards, all edges stained yellow. First printing of the second edition, revised and corrected. This first utopia set in future time was one of the eighteenth century's most successful books. It was immediately banned in France, put on the Inquisition's list of forbidden books in 1773, and condemned in Madrid in 1778

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