Utopian fiction.- [Mercier (Louis-Sébastien)] Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred, translated by W. Hooper, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, occasional light browning to head, library labels to pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, minor chipping to spine ends, vol.2 joints splitting at foot but holding firm, a very good set overall, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1772:36 (first English edition)], Dublin, for W. Wilson in Dame-Street, 1772; and a copy of The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca, large 12mo (3) ⁂ Mercier's hugely popular Utopian fantasy, first published in 1770, in which the narrator falls asleep after debating with a friend about the injustices of Paris to awake to a Paris of the future in which there are no priests, prostitutes, beggars, slavery, taxes and (curiously) pastry chefs.
Utopian fiction.- [Mercier (Louis-Sébastien)] Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred, translated by W. Hooper, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, occasional light browning to head, library labels to pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, minor chipping to spine ends, vol.2 joints splitting at foot but holding firm, a very good set overall, [cf. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1772:36 (first English edition)], Dublin, for W. Wilson in Dame-Street, 1772; and a copy of The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca, large 12mo (3) ⁂ Mercier's hugely popular Utopian fantasy, first published in 1770, in which the narrator falls asleep after debating with a friend about the injustices of Paris to awake to a Paris of the future in which there are no priests, prostitutes, beggars, slavery, taxes and (curiously) pastry chefs.
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