Accession number
PML 141168-69
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778
Published
Paris : Chez la veuve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, Panckoucke et Nyon, libraires, 1770.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engravings by de Longueil from designs by Eisen.
First published in 1723 with title: La ligue, ou, Henri le Grand.
Some of the preliminaries are in English.
Vol. 1 has engraved t.p. without date; v. 2 has letterpress t.p. dated 1770.
"De l'imprimerie de Barbou"--Colophon.
Title vignette ; head- and tail-pieces. Some of the head-pieces are engraved; some of the printed head-pieces are signed by Papillon.
Bookseller's label reads: "Potey, libraire, de Monseigneur Duc d'Angoulême, Rue du Bac, No. 46 à Paris."
Binder's ticket reads: "Duplanil fils relieur, Rue St. Jacques No. 105 à Paris."
First published in 1723 with title: La ligue, ou, Henri le Grand.
Some of the preliminaries are in English.
Vol. 1 has engraved t.p. without date; v. 2 has letterpress t.p. dated 1770.
"De l'imprimerie de Barbou"--Colophon.
Title vignette ; head- and tail-pieces. Some of the head-pieces are engraved; some of the printed head-pieces are signed by Papillon.
Bookseller's label reads: "Potey, libraire, de Monseigneur Duc d'Angoulême, Rue du Bac, No. 46 à Paris."
Binder's ticket reads: "Duplanil fils relieur, Rue St. Jacques No. 105 à Paris."
Description
2 v., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Béraldi; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full green calf by Duplanil.
Classification
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