1768 Collection Complette des Oeuvres de Mr. de Voltaire

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

In the original French.

The first folio edition of Voltaire's collected works. Present here are the first seven volumes only of a thirty volume set.

An impressive collection of the works of Voltaire, the influential writer of the French Enlightenment. He was famous for his outspoken wit, satire, and for his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church. Voltaire was a prolific author, writing more than twenty-thousand letters during his life, as well as more than two-thousand books and pamphlets. This set contains a collection of his prose and non-fiction works. 

Volume I, 'La Henriade', published in 1768, illustrated with two frontispieces, and ten plates. Collated, complete.

Volume II, 'Histoire de Charles XII', published in 1768, illustrated with a frontispiece and one plate. Collated, complete.

Volume III, 'Theatre Tome I', published in 1768, illustrated with six plates. Collated, lacking the frontispiece.

Volume IV, 'Theatre Tome II', published in 1768, illustrated with five plates. Collated, complete.

Volume V, 'Theatre Tome III', published in 1768, illustrated with six plates. Collated, complete.

Volume VI, 'Theatre Tome IV', published in 1768, illustrated with six plates. Collated, complete.

Volume VII, 'Theatre Tome V', published in 1768, illustrated with nine plates. Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of Emily Francis Whitney to each front pastedown.

Lacking half titles.