Accession number
PML 140255
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Published
Paris : Chez E. Dubois, 1825.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with 71 tinted lithographic portraits, the majority of them by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse; 18 historical scenes by H. Vernet, 3 of them tinted and the rest printed on chine-collé on india paper; with a frontispiece plate and full-page fleuron "cul-de-lampe" by C. Girardet after Dubois, both printed on india paper.
Lithographic plates by H. Vernet printed by Delpech, Engelmann, Mme. Formentin, Langlumé, and unsigned; portraits printed by Ducarme, Mlle Formentin, V. Ratier, Delpech, G. Engelmann, Demanne, Villain, and Langlumé.
Plates protected by guard sheets.
"Préface du roi de Prusse": p. [v]-xiv. "Preface de Marmontel": p. [xv]-xxv.
Library's copy has two versions of the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I at p. 16; the first with the Queen facing 3/4 to the right and the second reversed to the left and printed with the tint block out of register.
Lithographic plates by H. Vernet printed by Delpech, Engelmann, Mme. Formentin, Langlumé, and unsigned; portraits printed by Ducarme, Mlle Formentin, V. Ratier, Delpech, G. Engelmann, Demanne, Villain, and Langlumé.
Plates protected by guard sheets.
"Préface du roi de Prusse": p. [v]-xiv. "Preface de Marmontel": p. [xv]-xxv.
Library's copy has two versions of the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I at p. 16; the first with the Queen facing 3/4 to the right and the second reversed to the left and printed with the tint block out of register.
Description
lx, 233 p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 42 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco tooled in gilt.
Classification
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