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Title

Testament politique de M. de V***.

Author

Marchand, Jean-Henri, -approximately 1785

Publication

A Genève : [publisher not identified], 1779.

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Additional Authors

• Voltaire, 1694-1778
• Martin J. Gross Collection.

Description

[4], 68 pages; 20 cm (8vo)

Alternative Title

Testament politique de M. de Voltaire.

Subject

• Voltaire, 1694-1778 > Political and social views
• Voltaire, 1694-1778
• Political and social views

Note

• "A Ferney, ce 10 juillet 1770. Signé A. de V*** [that is, Arouet de Voltaire]"--Page 68.
• By Jean-Henri Marchand. See Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), t. 4, column 684.
• Originally published 1770. Cf. Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale: auteurs, v. 214, colums 1818, entry 5593; Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF catalogue général, FRBNF30878649; Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, entries 42428, 65357; Bengesco, G. Voltaire, IV, no. 2415; Vercruysse, J. "Bibliographie des écrits français relatifs à Voltaire." In Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 60 (1968): 7-71, entry 308.
• Date on title page has been altered in manuscript from "1770." Apparently an unaltered reissue of the original edition, except gatherings A-C are reset.
• Signatures: pi⁴(-pi3,4=E1,2) A-D⁸ E1,2(=pi3,4). $4 signed, roman; quire catchwords.
• NYPL copy has pages 65-68 (that is, leaves E1 and E2, respectively conjugate with title page and half title leaf) bound following title page.
• Type flower title page ornament; type flower headpiece.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Bibliothèque nationale de France copy 8-LN27-20764, with date on title page altered to "1778") via Gallica.

Call Number

*KGV 09-34

OCLC

310788400

Author

Marchand, Jean-Henri, -approximately 1785, author.

Title

Testament politique de M. de V***.

Publisher

A Genève : [publisher not identified], 1779.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available online (Bibliothèque nationale de France copy 8-LN27-20764, with date on title page altered to "1778") via Gallica.

Local Note

Bound 2nd in a vol. containing 6 works. Title on spine: Recueil de pieces. First work: Voltaire. Précis de l'Ecclésiaste, et du Cantique des cantiques. A Liége [i.e. France] : Chez J.F. Bassompierre, libraire, MDCCLX [1760]

Martin J. Gross Collection.

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Place of Publication

Switzerland Geneva.

Added Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778, attributed name.

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

*KGV 09-34