INVENTORY #148947
Nouveaux Synonymes François; Ouvrage Dédié a L'Académie Françoise. Tomes I-IV
ROUBAUD, M. l'Abbé
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This work on new French synonyms is dedicated to the French Academy. Title states that Moutard is printer-bookseller to the Queen, Madame, and Madame Countess d'Artois. Text is by Pierre-Joseph-André Roubaud (1730-91), a journalist and grammarian who was an outspoken critic of slavery as well as a linguist. François Guizot (1787-1874) refers extensively to this work in his new universal dictionary of synonyms first printed in 1809.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Chez Moutard
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1785-6
- Place Published: Paris
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
4 vols. xl, 432, [1]; 465, [2]; 585, [2]; 587, [5] p. 20 cm. Full leather with five raised bands, gilt impressing on spines, spine labels for title and volume numbers. All edges red, endpapers marbled. Ribbon markers. Title vignettes. Edges and spine ends worn, corners bumped. Some gilt wearing off spines and spine labels. Vol. II does not have upper spine label in brown. A little bleeding of red colour to front endpapers. Vol. I has small label on front pastedown, ink notation across from half title, mark on lower edge, front hinge cracking internally. A little foxing or spotting throughout. French text.