Research Catalog

Title

The history of Charles the XIIth, King of Sweden. translated from the last Geneva edition of M. de Voltaire, by W.S. Kenrick ; to which is added, The life of Peter the Great, translated by J. Johnson, M.A.

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778

Publication

London : Printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXX [1780]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kenrick, W. S.
• Johnson, John, active 1778-1781
• Fielding and Walker, publisher

Description

[2], 434 pages, [2] leaves of plates : portraits; 22 cm

Alternative Title

History of Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden

Subjects

• Sweden > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Charles > XII, > King of Sweden, > 1682-1718
• Russia > History > Peter I, 1689-1725
• Sweden > History > Charles XII, 1697-1718
• Peter > I, > Emperor of Russia, > 1672-1725
• Russia > Kings and rulers > Biography

Note

• Signatures: [A]1 B-2E⁸ 2F1.
• Intended to accompany The works of M. de Voltaire (variant title The works of the late M. de Voltaire), London : Fielding and Walker, 1779-1780.
• Contains only Part I of "The history of the empire of Russia, under Peter the Great. Part I": p. [261]-434. Part II was published as pages 444-600, sometimes bound with this work as a single volume.
• Illustrations: 2 prints : engraving ; full-page frontispiece portrait of Charles XII by Thornthwaite after Rigaud; portrait of Peter I by D. Jenkins after R. Delvaux opposite page 281.

Indexed In (note)

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

Call Number

*Pforz BT (Byronana. 13)

OCLC

29817265

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.

Title

The history of Charles the XIIth, King of Sweden. translated from the last Geneva edition of M. de Voltaire, by W.S. Kenrick ; to which is added, The life of Peter the Great, translated by J. Johnson, M.A.

Publisher

London : Printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXX [1780]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, T137663

Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 2, p. 33-34

Rousseau, A.M. Éditions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 7⁷

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Lacking the illustrations. -- Formerly owned by Mary Ann Chaworth, Lord Byron's distant cousin and first love; with her autograph signature on the front pastedown ("Mary Ann Chaworth / Annesley - 1802"). -- Contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, gilt spine titling and decoration.

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Place of Publication

England London

Added Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778. Histoire de l'empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand, T. I. English.

Kenrick, W. S., translator.

Johnson, John, active 1778-1781, translator.

Fielding and Walker, publisher.

Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1785-1832, former owner

Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1785-1832, signer

Research Call Number

*Pforz BT (Byronana. 13)