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Book title:

Cecilia, ou Mémoires d'une héritière, by Burney, Fanny

Keywords:  Literature, Prose Fiction, Romantic Fiction

Parisian category: Romans

Printed:  1,500 full copies

Acquired:  61 full copies

Sold and Given:  between 1,619 and 1,634 copies

Returns:  2 full copies

N.B. Lower and upper limits (where given) are calculated by treating each incomplete set - i.e. each set containing some but not all volumes of the edition - as 0 and 1 respectively.  Click 'events for this book' below for details.

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Full title: Cecilia, ou Mémoires d'une héritière par l'auteur d'Evelina; traduits de l'anglois
Edition type (by origin): STN editions
Author(s): Burney, Fanny
Translator(s): Rieu, Henri
Original title: Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress
Original language: English
Language(s): French
Publication: Neuchâtel: Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, 1783
Details: 5 volumes, in-12°, pages: [2], 355, [1bl.]; [2], 319, [1 bl.]; [2], 440; [2], 373, [1 bl.]; [2], 477, [1 bl.]
Notes: Attribution - known STN edition. This edition was printed by the STN with at least two title pages, the first with the details given here, the second with the address of Barthelemy Chirol in Geneva added. Both these title pages were dated 1783. Marie Antoinette's copy of this work reads "A GENEVE,| Chez Nouffer De Rodon & Compagnie, | Imprimeurs-Libraires." It is dated 1784. Its sheets are the same as the 1783 STN edition. This edition also presented 'Cecilia' as part of Nouffer's 'Bibliothèque ou Choix des meilleurs romans anglois'.
Full title: Cecilia, ou Mémoires d'une héritière
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown
Author(s): Burney, Fanny
Translator(s): Rieu, Henri
Original title: Cecilia
Original language: English
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 5 volumes
LFB Catalogue 1787
Notes: Attribution - editions not identified. From April 1785 the STN traded in the (Maestricht, 1784) and the (Neuchâtel, 1783) editions of this work. It has not been possible to separate the sales of these two editions consistantly from the accounts. Fauche-Borel Catalogue (1787) gives (Maestricht, 1784).