Voyage Du Jeune Anacharsis En Grèce, Dans Le Milieu Du Quatrième Siècle, Avant L'Ère Vulgaire. - En Trois Volumes. - Tome I. (- III.) -
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/4023
Imprint
À Londres:: Chez Charles Dilly, Dans Le Poultry. -, MDCCXCVI.
Physical Description
3 vols.; 219 mm. (Octavo.)
General Note
Vol. I: xv, [1], 432, [1] p., [18] pl. - Vol. II: [2], iv, 417, [1] p., [10] pl. - Vol. III: [4], 522 p., [3] pl. - (Most plates are folding maps. They carry no plate numbers, but carry the number of the chapter to which they relate.)
Contents
Vol. I: [Frontis. (map), t.p.] - Avis De L'Editeur - Avertissement - Ordre Chronologique Du Voyage D'Anacharsis - Division De L'Ouvrage; Avertissement dur les Tables - Table Des Chapitres. Contenus dans ce Volume - [Text, and plates]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - Table Des Chapitres. Contenus dans ce Volume - [Text, and pl.]. - Vol. III: [T.p.] - Table Des Chapitres. Contenus dans ce Volume; Avertissement sur les Tables - [Text, and pl.] - Avertissement Sur Les Tables Suivantes - Table Ire.(-Xe) - Analyse Critique Des Cartes De L'Ancienne Grèce, Dressées pour le Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis, par M. Barbié Bocage - Tables Générale Des Matières ... ; Fautes à Corriger Vol. I (-III).
Responsibility Note
All but four plates are signed as engraved by I. (or J. or I.C.) Russell, E. Malpas or R. Newman. One of those not signed by an engraver is signed as drawn by M. Foucherot.
References
ESTC, N21798
The impact of this work is described in M. Baudolle, J.J. Barthélemy (1716-1795) et l'héllenisme en France dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (1927).
Summary Note
This novel was first published in Paris in 1788. It is an account of ancient Greek civilisation presented as a description of a tour of Greece by a young Scythian. The work was well received and was soon translated into German (1789), Italian (1791), English (1791) and Russian (1803).
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1990 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
Copy Note
The title page of Volume I is inscribed in pencil, '(Jean Jacques Barthélemy)'. The spines carry labels reading 'PA f 12'.
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, brown embossed cloth; gilt-decorated spines, red morocco spine-labels lettered 'Voyage Du Jeune Anacharsis', spines lettered 'Tome I. (- III.)', 'R.A.' and '1796'.
Subject
Greeks - Social life and customs - Civilization - Greece - Description and travel - History - 4th century B.C.
French fiction - Instructional materials - Children's books - Maps - France - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century