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Title

Lettres ecrites de Londres sur les Anglois et autres sujets / par M. D.V***.

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Publication

A Basle [i.e. London : W. Bowyer], 1734.

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Additional Authors

• Thiriot, Nicolas Claude, 1696?-1772.
• Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Description

[8], 228, [20] p.; 18 cm. (8vo)

Subjects

• Great Britain > Religion > Early works to 1800
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century
• Imaginary letters
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Philosophy, Modern > 18th century
• Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century

Note

• For actual place of printing and name of printer, cf. BN.
• Published under the direction of N.C. Thiriot; first published by Thiriot in 1733, in English (portions written in English) and an English translation by John Lockman, under title: Letters concerning the English nation. The French text was originally published under title Lettres philosophiques. A Amsterdam [i.e. Rouen] : Chez E. Lucas [i.e. Jore], 1734. Cf. BN, col. 1350, no. 3666.
• Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-P⁸ Q⁴.
• Woodcut t.p. ornament; ornamental tailpieces. Cf. Maslen, K.L.D. The Bowyer ornament stock. 1973. nos. 132, 146, 148, 153, 162, 165, 167-169, 172, 177, 179, 181.
• "Lettre sur l'incendie de la ville d'Altena": p. 222-228.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC
• BN
• 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)

• Martin J. Gross Collection; George Baillie (armorial bookplate, dated 1724, signed: A. Johnston, sculp.); Graham A. Wenman (modern label on front pastedown).

Call Number

*KGV (Voltaire. Lettres philosophiques. 1734) 01-39

OCLC

• 15171940
• NYPG01-B1769

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Title

Lettres ecrites de Londres sur les Anglois et autres sujets / par M. D.V***.

Imprint

A Basle [i.e. London : W. Bowyer], 1734.

Indexed In:

ESTC T138264

BN, v. 214, col. 1353, no. 3677

Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 212

Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 341

Provenance

Martin J. Gross Collection; George Baillie (armorial bookplate, dated 1724, signed: A. Johnston, sculp.); Graham A. Wenman (modern label on front pastedown).

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary mottled calf; brown morocco spine label. Binder's title: Lettres de Voltaire.

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Added Author

Thiriot, Nicolas Claude, 1696?-1772.

Baillie, George, 1664-1738. Former owner

Wenman, Graham A. Former owner

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Research Call Number

*KGV (Voltaire. Lettres philosophiques. 1734) 01-39