Réglement de la Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du S. Sacrement, et de la Bonne Mort : erigée dans l'eglise paroissiale de Ville-Marie, en l'Isle de Montréal, en Canada

Contributor:

Mesplet, Fleury, 1734-1794 (printer); Berger, Charles (printer)

Name:

Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du S. Sacrement, et de la Bonne Mort; Notre-Dame de Montréal (Church); Grand Séminaire de Montréal

Date:

1776

Language:

French

Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (autograph) (donor); Gauthier, Françoise (inscription)

Publisher:

Chez F. Mesplet & C. Berger, imprimeurs & libraires, près le Marché

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Canada -- Societies, etc; Catholic Church; Confraternities; Confraternities -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

40 pages; 12 cm (24to)

Geographic Subject:

Canada

Related Place:

Canada -- Québec -- Montréal.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Evans describes this book as the first printed in Montreal; Tremaine argues for an earlier Montreal edition, which Evans believed Mesplet printed in Philadelphia prior to leaving Franklin's printing office.; Printed for the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Montreal. Cf. Tremaine.; Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴.; Woodcuts: device; head-pieces.; On verso of t.p. a "Loué", in which the entrant into the association has written in ink after the printed "Je" his name "Françoise Gauthier", and has also filled in the day of the month he chose, and the time from "deux" until "trois heures".; In original covers. Housed in a clamshell case (18 x 16 cm.).; Library's copy has 6 typewritten pages with the book description laid in; one leaf with a ms. note and signature of Robert Dechert.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Dechert Collection, BX816.C3 C66 1776

Collection:

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)