Attributed to Madame du Boccage by Barbier and Cioranescu.

Imprint is false; printed on the continent, possibly Paris. Cf. ESTC.

First printed London [i.e. Paris?], 1748.

"Poëme qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie de Rouen, distribué pour la premiére [sic] fois, le 12 juillet 1746", p. [105]-112, has separate undated title page.

Signatures: pi² A-F⁸ G-H⁴ (H1 verso blank)

Title page printed in red and black; title printed within ornamental border; engraved vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials; each of the five cantos has engraved vignette as headpiece; all text framed with ornamental border.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of the author bound to face engraved illustrated plate with pastoral scene of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Cf. Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 25463.

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, 13768.

English short title catalogue N38022.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 2 with: La Colombiade, ou La foi portée au nouveau monde, poëme / Madame du Boccage, Paris, 1761.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf.