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Oeuvres de Crébillon, by Crébillon fils, Claude-Prosper Jolyot [de]

Keywords: Allegorical Works, Anti-Clerical Works, Collected works, Despotism, Erotic works, France, Libertine texts, Literature, Louis XV, Oeuvres, Philosophie, Political Fiction, Prose Fiction, Satirical works

Parisian category: Romans

Illegality: Darnton’s Corpus (40 copies requested in 12 orders)

Acquired: 192 full copies

Sold and Given: 156 full copies

Returns: 2 full copies

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Full title: Oeuvres de Crébillon fils
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): Crébillon fils, Claude-Prosper Jolyot [de]
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - STN sold several editions of work: MS 1007 indicates 12 vols (Maestricht, 1779), as advertised in STN Catalogue 1785, although this edition can only be identified with certainty for later sales. All transactions were in complete sets. Fauche-Borel Catalogue (1787) gives this edition and (Lyon, 1786, 14 vols). Contents of (Maestricht, 1779) edition - vol. 1. Eloge de Monsieur de Crebillon; Les égarements du cœur et de l'esprit; 2. L'écumoire, ou Tanzai et Néadarné, histoire japonoise; 3. Le Sopha, conte moral; 4. Les heureux orphelins 5. Le hasard du coin du feu, dialogue moral; La nuit et le moment, ou les matines de cythere; 6-7. Ah quel conte! conte politique et astronomique; 8. Lettres de la marquise de M ***. au comte de R***; Le Sylphe, ou songe de Madame de R*** 9-10. Lettres athéniennes, extraites du portefeuille d'Alcibiade 11. Lettres de la duchesse de ***. au duc de *** 12. Les amours de Zeokinizul, roi des Kofirans. L'asiatique tolérant.