Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Tome premier. (-Soixante-deuxieme).
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
Category
Books
Date
1784
Materials
Place of origin
Kehl
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3201475
Summary
Bibliographic description
70 + 2v.. 8vo. Set completed by two supplementary vols: Tables analytique et raissonée … par Le Cen. Chantreau. - A Paris, chez Deterville, libraire, rue du Battoir, No. 16, quartier de l’Odéon An IX 1801. Provenance: Inscribed in ink: This book belonged to his great-uncle the late Lord Exmouth. / Alda Hoare / from / Henry Hugh Arthur / Hoare … (June 1908)’. – ‘(Library / W. Shelf 2.)’. – Vol. 1: Avertissement page: Inscribed: ‘Evening in my boudoir. Wedy March 20th 1918’. – Pencil markings Binding: Tree calf, gold-decorated spines, red and black spine-labels, gold-lettered. – Loosely inserted sale catalogue cuttings reporting similar sets listed in Guildford (1926), Bath (1921), and 1934. - Vol. 70: Vie de Voltaire – Alda Hoare’s reading notes of 1903, 1916 and 1941 ‘a Stourhead’. – Attached: Cuttings from ‘L’echo de Paris’, jeudi 4, Aout 1927: ‘Un après-midi chez Voltaire’
Makers and roles
François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) Pierre Nicolas Chantreau (1741-1808) Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794) Imprimerie de la Société littéraire-typographique