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A plurality of worlds;

Title: A plurality of worlds; John Glanvill's translation, with a prologue by David Garnett.
Author: Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.
Publication: [London] The Nonesuch Press, 1929.

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Description

ix(i), 138 p., 1 l. col'd illus.; 8vo.

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Note

At head of title: Bernard de Fontenelle.
"This edition of fontenelle's La pluralité des mondes in John Glanvill's translation of 1688 consists of 1,200 copies for sale by the Nonesuch press, and 400 copies for sale in the United States by Random house. It has been designed by Francis Meynell, composed by T. W. Hay at the Nonesuch press, and printed on Van Gelder paper at the Curwen press. The colour-stenciled decorations are by T. L. Poulton; the remainder are composed of astronomical signs.

Call Number

*KP (Nonesuch) (Fontenelle, B. Le B. de. Plurality of worlds)

LCCN

30028972 //r40

OCLC

2111213

Author

Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.

Title

A plurality of worlds; John Glanvill's translation, with a prologue by David Garnett.

Imprint

[London] The Nonesuch Press, 1929.

Local Note

This copy is number 680.

Bound in limp vellum.

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Glanvill, John, 1664?-1735. Translator

Garnett, David, 1892-1981.

Poulton, T. L. Illustrator

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Research Call Number

*KP (Nonesuch) (Fontenelle, B. Le B. de. Plurality of worlds)