Research Catalog

Title

Memoirs of the life of Voltaire / written by himself ; translated from the French.

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Publication

London : Printed for G. Robinson ..., 1784.

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Details

Additional Authors

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Description

[4], ii, 225, [1] p.; 19 cm. (8vo)

Subjects

• Frederick > II, > King of Prussia, > 1712-1786
• Voltaire, 1694-1778
• Prussia (Germany) > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Authors, French > 18th century > Biography

Note

• Translation of: Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire.
• Signatures: [A]⁴(-A1) B-P⁸ chi1.
• Woodcut t.p. ornament (publisher's device).
• "Extract of a letter from Paris, dated May 2, 1784, which may serve asa preface to this edition of the Memoirs of Voltaire": p. [i]-ii.

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC (RLIN)
• Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032)
• Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121)

Provenance (note)

• Copy in *KGV: Martin J. Gross Collection; T* Parke (early hand stamp on front flyleaf); Pforz. copy: H. Hughes (in ink on half-title); "Nuneaton Society / N: 320" (in ink on front cover).

Call Number

AN (Voltaire) (Voltaire, F. M. A. de. Memoirs of the life of Voltaire)

OCLC

• 8943108
• NYPGR8943108-B

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Title

Memoirs of the life of Voltaire / written by himself ; translated from the French.

Imprint

London : Printed for G. Robinson ..., 1784.

Indexed In:

ESTC (RLIN) T1128

Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 250

Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 383

Provenance

Copy in *KGV: Martin J. Gross Collection; T* Parke (early hand stamp on front flyleaf); Pforz. copy: H. Hughes (in ink on half-title); "Nuneaton Society / N: 320" (in ink on front cover).

Local Note

Binding (copy in *KGV): Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; black morocco spine label.

Binding (Pforz. copy): Original cream boards with pasted blue-gray covers.

Copy in AN: Gansevoort-Lansing Collection.

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Added Author

Parke, T. Former owner

Hughes, H. Former owner

Nuneaton Society. Former owner

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Research Call Number

AN (Voltaire) (Voltaire, F. M. A. de. Memoirs of the life of Voltaire)

*KGV (Voltaire. Memoires. English. 1784) 01-51

Pforz (Voltaire)