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

Author
Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757
Uniform Title
La pluralité des mondes. English. 1929
Published
[London] : The Nonesuch press, 1929.
Physical Description
ix, 1 unnumbered page, 138 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (part color) ; 21 cm
Additional Creators
Glanvill, John, 1664?-1735

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At head of title: Bernard de Fontenelle.
Issued in slipcase.
"This edition of Fontenelle's La pluralité des mondes in John Glanvill' 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".
This is no. 261.
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Wright. 560.
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