12mo. xii, 202pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, 'Collège de Parthenay' in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp.

An early nineteenth-century Parisian edition of Mary Collyer's [née Mitchell] (1716/17-1762) immensely popular English prose translation of Salomon Gessner's (1730-1788) dramatization of the biblical tale of Adam's son, Abel Der Tod Abels (Zurich, 1758), first published in 1761.