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The man of forty crowns

Title
The man of forty crowns / translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Publication
London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. D'Hondt, in the Strand, 1768.

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Additional Authors
Martin J. Gross Collection. NN
Description
iii, [1], 104 p.; 20 cm. (8vo)
Subject
  • Le Mercier de La Rivière, Pierre-Paul, 1719 or 1720-approximately 1794
  • Roussel de La Tour, approximately 1710-approximately 1798
  • Physiocrats > Fiction
  • Physiocrats > Humor
  • Finance, Public > France > History > To 1789 > Fiction
  • France > Economic conditions > 18th century > Fiction
  • France > Social conditions > 18th century > Fiction
Note
  • Satirical response to Le Mercier de la Rivière's L'ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques, Roussel de la Tour's La richesse de l'état and other works of the physiocrats. Cf. Quérard, X, p. 324 (Bib. voltairienne, no. 1590); introd. by B.M. Bloesch to the ed. in Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 66, p. 213-264.
  • Signatures: A² B-G⁸ H⁴.
  • Woodcut t.p. ornament.
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC (RLIN)
  • Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032)
  • Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121)
  • Bloesch & Brown. L'homme aux quarante écus, translations (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 66, p. 279-280)
Provenance (note)
  • Martin J. Gross Collection.
Call Number
*KGV (Voltaire. Princesse de Babylone. English. 1768) 01-90
OCLC
  • 4252604
  • 35366938
  • NYPGR35366938-B
Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Title
The man of forty crowns / translated from the French of M. de Voltaire.
Imprint
London : Printed for T. Becket and P.A. D'Hondt, in the Strand, 1768.
Indexed In:
ESTC (RLIN) N4438
Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 187
Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 325
Bloesch & Brown. L'homme aux quarante écus, translations (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 66, p. 279-280), p. 280
Provenance
Martin J. Gross Collection.
Local Note
Copy in *KGV with: Voltaire. The Princess of Babylon. London : Printed for S. Bladon, 1768. Number 4 of 4 items bound together subsequent to publication.
Added Author
Martin J. Gross Collection. NN
Research Call Number
*KGV (Voltaire. Princesse de Babylone. English. 1768) 01-90
DES (Voltaire, F. M. A. de. Man of forty crowns)
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