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New idylles

Title: New idylles / by Gessner ; translated by W. Hooper, M.D. ; with a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting ; and The two friends of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.
Author: Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788.
Publication: London : Printed for S. Hooper, Ludgate Hill, & G. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1776.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Supervised use	NGK (Gessner, S. New idylles)	Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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Description

[4], 129, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.; 30 cm. (4to)

Alternative Title

New idyls

Subject

Füssli, Johann Caspar, 1706-1782

Note

Engraved t.p., illustrated.
Translation of selections from Idyllen and of Brief über die Landschaftmalerey, by Gessner; and of Les deux amis de Bourbonne, by Diderot.
Signatures: [A]² B-R⁴ S1.
Illustrations: 23 prints : engraving ; full-page (10) and smaller. Comprise t.p., unsigned, incorporating port. of Gessner, and 9 full-page ill., chiefly engraved by S. Sparrow (one by Chambars; 3 unsigned), after Gessner; and 3 headpieces and 10 tailpieces, chiefly by Sparrow after Gessner (6 unsigned).

Indexed In (note)

Adams, D. Diderot

Provenance (note)

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Call Number

NGK (Gessner, S. New Idylles)

LCCN

25000564

OCLC

4075308
NYPGR4075308-B

Author

Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788.

Title

New idylles / by Gessner ; translated by W. Hooper, M.D. ; with a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting ; and The two friends of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

Imprint

London : Printed for S. Hooper, Ludgate Hill, & G. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1776.

Indexed In:

Adams, D. Diderot, II, DD46

Provenance

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Local Note

Duyckinck (copy in NGK).

Copy in NGK lacks half title; trimmed to 26 cm.

Copy in *KGV partly unopened.

Binding (copy in *KGV): Original bluish gray paper boards with drab paper backstrip.

Added Author

Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788. Brief über die Landschaftmalerey. English. 1776.

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Deux amis de Bourbonne. English. 1776.

Hooper, W. (William), active 1770.

Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788. Illustrator

Sparrow, S. Engraver

Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789. Engraver

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

NGK (Gessner, S. New Idylles)

*KGV (Diderot. Deux amis. English. 1776) 01-542

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