Lot Essay
Brunet describes this edition of Voltaire's works as: "Cette édition célèbre était la plus complète, la plus belle et la mieux ordonné qui eût paru jusqu'alors des oeuvres de Voltaire" (p. 1353).
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VOLTAIRE, Françoise Marie Arouet de. Oeuvres completes, [n.p.]: l'Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique, 1785-89, 70 volumes, 8°, engraved portraits and engraved plates (slight spotting & browning, occasional slight waterstaining, but still good copies with wide margins), contemporary half calf and speckled boards, spines decorated in gilt, contrasting red morocco labels lettered in gilt (some labels faded, spines slighlty rubbed, head of spine of vol. 14 and tail of vol. 31 scuffed, corners bumped). [Brunet, p. 1353] (70)