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Letters concerning the English nation

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KGV (Voltaire. Lettres philosophiques. English. 1752) 01-42	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

vi, [7]-219, [21] p.; 17 cm. (8vo)

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Note

Portions written in English; remainder translated by John Lockman. Originally published: London : Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. First published in French in 1734 under title: Lettres philosophiques.
"These letters ... are the result of the author's ... friendship for Mr. Thiriot"--Preface.
Signatures: A⁴ (A3+a²) B-2F⁴ 2G².
Publisher's advertisements: p. [239-240].
Includes index.

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)

Call Number

*KGV (Voltaire. Lettres philosophiques. English. 1752) 01-42

OCLC

NYPG01-B1833

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Title

Letters concerning the English nation / by Mr. de Voltaire.

Imprint

Glasgow : Printed by Robert Urie, 1752.

Edition

The third edition, corrected.

Indexed In:

ESTC (RLIN) T137615

Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 220

Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 349

Provenance

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary calf, gilt; brown morocco spine label.

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Added Author

Lockman, John, 1698-1771.

Thiriot, Nicolas Claude, 1696?-1772.

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Research Call Number

*KGV (Voltaire. Lettres philosophiques. English. 1752) 01-42