Essai sur le goût
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Type of record: Book
Title: Essai sur le goût
Other titles: Essay on taste
Classmark: Anglo-French 4 1766/GER
Creator(s): Gerard, Alexander (1728-1795)
Additional creator(s): Voltaire (1694-1778) (Other); Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783) (Other); Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat baron de (1689-1755) (Other); Eidous, Marc Antoine (Other)
Related people: Voltaire; Alembert, Jean Le Rond d'; Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat; Eidous, Marc Antoine
Publisher: chez Delalain, libraire; chez la veuve Coignard de la Pinelle, & Louis Frantin, libraires
Publication city: A Paris : A Dijon
Date(s): 1766
Language: French
Size and medium: viii, 306, [4] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/354511
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007717189705181
Description
With half-title.
The last 4 pages contain the Approbation, the Privilège, etc.
At the end: De l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné, Imprimeur de Mgr le Dauphin, 1766.
First edition in French, and apparently the first collective printing of the additional texts by the three French philosophers in their language (no separate editions traced)
Translated by Marc Antoine Eidous.
Additional description
Book-label: Ex bibliotheca Seminarii minoria Montis Maurilionis (Montmorillon, Poitou).
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