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W. Wilson, Dublin, 1772 An exceedingly rare imprint of this utopian novel, first published in French in 1771. This edition was published in Dublin in 1772, and cannot be found in OCLC (the first edition in English is listed in OCLC as a London imprint in 1772: 2 vol. G. Robinson). This is a utopian novel set in the year 2440. Book block only, lacking boards, but majority of leather spine strip still present, with raised bands; binding of book block still sound. 6 3/8 x 4 inches, 184 pp. Mild dampstaing near spine. Otherwise, pages clean. This is volume 1 only (but volume 2 is available to read online (h t t p s : / / a r c h i v e . o r g /details/memoirsofyeartwo02merc --- without the spaces). Rare indeed. "Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, "The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One"; translated into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred [sic]; and into German as Das Jahr zwey tausend vier hundert und vierzig: Ein Traum… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, 1795.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xi, [i], 360pp. A6-Z6, Aa6-Hh6. First American edition. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. Bowe & Daniels F633; Evans 29068; Wilkie, "L'Ans 2440," Harvard Library Bulletin; Bleiler (1948) p. 26. First utopian novel printed in America.

London, printed for G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-row, 1772.. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1772, 2 volumes complete. First published in France in 1771, L'AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE, translated from the French by W. H. Hooper. 12mo, approximately 170 x 95 mm, 6½ x 3¾ inches, pages: [i-v], vi-viii, [1]-224; [4], [1]-248, first free endpaper counted in the collation, Contents, advert and Errata bound out of order after title page (1 leaf, [ix-x], the catchword on viii is Con, the digital copy listed in WorldCat under Victoria and Albert Museum" collates as our copy, the only collation we could find), bound in contemporary quarter roan, marbled boards, plain endpapers. Spines slightly rubbed and darkened, 3 small repairs to blank side of inner margin to title page of Volume 1, title pages a little dusty with some minor pale stains, last page of Volume 1 with slight stain to inner margin, occasional pale spot to text, a very good clean set. See: I. F. Clarke, Tale of the Future,… Read More