on Ccc
3, colophon with date and printer’s device on the last leaf, recto.
Lowndes II, 679. STC 21651.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. I, 815.
Grolier Club Catalogue of Original and Early Editions, 217.
Guillaume de Saluste, Seigneur Du Bartas, 1544-1590, French poet, published the first part of his
La Semaine ou Creation du Monde in Paris in 1568, followed by
La seconde Semaine in 1584. The first edition of Judith was printed in 1573.
Joshua Sylvester, 1563-1618, English poet, translated the work of Du Bartas into rhymed decasyllabic couplet, and published his first complete
edition of the
Deuine Weekes and Workes in 1605.
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Il Decamerone del Boccacio.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 59, as above.
BOCCACCIO,
Giovanni.
2 vol. 8vo. This title is taken from the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1839; that of 1831 does not give the imprint and
date of publication.
An edition of Amsterdam 1751 has not been found in any bibliography or catalogue consulted. A number of editions were issued
with Amsterdam in the imprint, though actually printed in Italy. Such an edition was printed in 1761 in 2 vol. 8vo.
Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375, Italian author.
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Contes moraux de Marmontel.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 27, as above.
MARMONTEL,
Jean François.
Contes Moraux. Par M. Marmontel, de l’Académie François. A
Paris [
Leipzig],
1766.
3 vol. 12mo. It is not absolutely certain that the
Leipzig contrefaçon of the
Paris edition of 1765 of the
Contes Moraux was the one sold by Jefferson to Congress, and no copy of the
contrefaçon was available for examination. Jefferson’s manuscript and the Library of Congress printed catalogue of 1815 do not indicate
the edition. The Library of Congress catalogue of 1831 repeats the 1815 entry;
the catalogue of 1839 supplies the date,
1766, but without the name of the printer or place of printing, the
catalogue of 1849 reads
Paris
1766, which probably indicates the
Leipzig contrefaçon. The
Paris edition of 1765 was illustrated with a portrait by Saint-Aubin after Cochin, an engraved title in each volume by Duclos after Gravelot and plates after Gravelot by several engravers. These plates were copied in the
Leipzig edition of
1766. See De Ricci-Cohen, 687.
Jefferson bought a copy of the “
Contes Moraux,
anciens et nouveaux par Marmontel,
10 vol. in 18mo,” half bound, from
Roche frères of Philadelphia, price $
8.00, on March 6, 1806. This is entered by Jefferson in his dated manuscript catalogue, but was not sold to Congress.
Jean François Marmontel, 1723-1799, French author and dramatist, began the publication of his
Contes Moraux in 1756 in the
Mercure de France
, of which journal he became the manager in 1758 through the patronage of Madame de Pompadour. Marmontel was elected to the
French Academy in 1763, and in 1783 was appointed its secretary.
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Marmontel’s Belisarius.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 28, Belisarius by Marmontel, 12mo.
MARMONTEL,
Jean François.
Belisarius. New Edition.
London: Printed for and sold by
P. Vaillant [and others ]
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. [1768.]
