Lettres d'une Peruvienne
- Creator
- Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758
- Form
- books
- fiction (general genre)
- Date
- 1748
- Language
- French
- Subject
- Indians of South America -- Fiction
- Indians of South America
- Incas -- Fiction
- Incas
- Extent
- 2 unnumbered pages, viii, 337 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Publisher
- [Pissot?]
- Notes
- A novel in the form of 38 letters, mainly from the Inca princess Zilia to her lover Aza.
- Authorship from Weller and Barbier.
- One of 11 early undated editions of this work. The original edition was published by Pissot with a fictitious imprint in Dec. 1747 or Jan. 1748; a second edition and several counterfeit editions appeared soon after. This is probably the second Pissot edition in which numerous typographical errors from the first have been corrected and leaf C3 is unsigned. Listed as no. P.2 in: Jo-Ann McEachern and David Smith, "Mme. de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne: identifying the first edition," Eighteenth-century fiction, v. 9, no. 1 (Oct. 1996) pp. 21-35. Palau y Dulcet, Cioranescu and Quérard suggest Paris, 1747.
- The title ornament is composed of 10 typographical devices; another edition (assigned to London by McEachern and Smith) has an ornament composed of 11 devices.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bg2hs7k
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Singer-Mendenhall Collection, PQ1986 .L4 1748
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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