![VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Autograph letter signed ('V') to 'Walters' (i.e. Georg Conrad Walther), n.p. [Berlin], 4 September n.y. [1751], 1½ pages, 4to, integral address panel (to Walther, 'Libraire du Roy Dresde')](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CKS/2007_CKS_07411_0197_000(022247).jpg?w=1)
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VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Autograph letter signed ('V') to 'Walters' (i.e. Georg Conrad Walther), n.p. [Berlin], 4 September n.y. [1751], 1½ pages, 4to, integral address panel (to Walther, 'Libraire du Roy Dresde')
To his printer concerning the new edition of his works on which he is working, commenting on the type size, the author's portrait and other matters: 'Vous aurez le troisieme volume necessaire Jy travaille sans relache. Je suis de votre avis sur le caractere de la prose. Je crois quil ne saurait etre trop petit, attendu que L'ouvrage sera tres augmenté, et que votre interest est de ne pas pousser votre edition a trop de volumes ... a legard de mon portrait je pense que vous pouriez seulement faire retoucher la planche a Leipsitz. mais si vous voulez vous servir de smith, je luy feray parler de votre part je ne songe qu'a epargner votre bourse ... il me faut absolument la lettre au chapelain norberg ... '
Walther came to Dresden from Nuremberg in 1736 and joined the purveyor of books for the royal library, before becoming the court printer to Augustus III. He was, at his own request, recommended to Voltaire by Count Algarotti who wrote of him, 'nella sua professione va dietro all'onore' (Besterman D. 3483), and Voltaire quickly agreed to Walther's proposal for the printing of a new edition of his works - there were in fact two editions, in 1748 and, the subject of the present letter, in 1752. The letter (D.4565) is one of a series by Voltaire to Walther from 1746 to 1756, when his relationship with the Cramers in Geneva began.
To his printer concerning the new edition of his works on which he is working, commenting on the type size, the author's portrait and other matters: 'Vous aurez le troisieme volume necessaire Jy travaille sans relache. Je suis de votre avis sur le caractere de la prose. Je crois quil ne saurait etre trop petit, attendu que L'ouvrage sera tres augmenté, et que votre interest est de ne pas pousser votre edition a trop de volumes ... a legard de mon portrait je pense que vous pouriez seulement faire retoucher la planche a Leipsitz. mais si vous voulez vous servir de smith, je luy feray parler de votre part je ne songe qu'a epargner votre bourse ... il me faut absolument la lettre au chapelain norberg ... '
Walther came to Dresden from Nuremberg in 1736 and joined the purveyor of books for the royal library, before becoming the court printer to Augustus III. He was, at his own request, recommended to Voltaire by Count Algarotti who wrote of him, 'nella sua professione va dietro all'onore' (Besterman D. 3483), and Voltaire quickly agreed to Walther's proposal for the printing of a new edition of his works - there were in fact two editions, in 1748 and, the subject of the present letter, in 1752. The letter (D.4565) is one of a series by Voltaire to Walther from 1746 to 1756, when his relationship with the Cramers in Geneva began.
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