Collection complette des oeuvres de Mr. de Voltaire.
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3078032
Summary
Bibliographic description
v., plates;. 4to. Accession no. 4673. One volume of plates only. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: unidentified bookplate lettered C.B. (lion rampant, crowned, on a field sable, shield surmounted with a count's coronet and the initials below). Morgand et Fatout (stock no. 11847 on verso of front free endpaper); 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.89. Binding: late eighteenth-century French red morocco; green lettering-piece 'Figures/ du/ Voltaire'; spine otherwise covered with drawer-handle and wedge tool. Edges gilt, leaf-marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)