For this edition were executed the copperplate engravings, designed by
Freudenberg and Dunker, which illustrate the present translation. It was
at first intended to issue the work in parts, but after parts i. and ii.
had been published (at 4 livres each) the project was abandoned. A few
copies of these two parts are in existence; they bear the date 1778.
Freudenberg began his designs in the previous year, and finished them in
1780.
This edition is greatly prized for its illustrations; the text, however,
largely modified by Jean Rodolphe de Sinner, is without value. The work
was reissued at Paris in 1784 (8 vols, in 8vo, some copies 18mo), at
Berne in 1792, and again in Paris in 1807 (8 vols. 18mo).
The following new editions of the _Heptameron_ have appeared during the
present century:--
XXI. _Contes et Nouvelles de Marguerite, &c_. Dauthereau, Paris, 1828, 5
vols. 32mo. (Collection des romans francais et etrangers.)
XXII. _L'Heptameron, ou Histoire des Amants fortunes, &c, ancien texte
publie par C. Gruget.., revu, corrige et publie avec des notes, &c.,
par le bibliophile Jacob_. Gosselin (Bibliotheque d'Elite), Paris, 1841,
12mo.
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