Voltaire - Œuvres complètes de Voltaire - 1824

Rare collection of this monumental edition that embraces the entire intellectual output of Voltaire -

This edition aims to rehabilitate Voltaire's heritage in its entirety, at a time when Enlightenment ideals are at odds with the return of monarchy -

The volumes are organized by genre and theme:
- Philosophical Tales (Candide, Zadig, Micromégas…), the Plays (Œdipe, Zaïre, Mahomet…), the Historical Essays (Charles XII, Louis XIV, Russia, Mœurs…), the Philosophical Treatises (Dictionnaire philosophique, Lettres anglaises, Traité sur la tolérance…), the Poetry, the Pamphlets, the Biblical Commentaries, the Scientific Texts and the Correspondences (more than 20,000 letters) -

Each volume is printed with care with clear typography and marginal critical notes. Voltaire appears here as polemicist, dramatist, historian, poet, encyclopedist and epistolary, articulating a thought grounded in reason, freedom of conscience, critique of dogmas and commitment against injustice -

It allows mapping the intellectual networks of the eighteenth century, following Voltaire's stylistic and argumentative evolution, and analyzing the discursive strategies of an author who shaped modernity -

It also constitutes a key resource for bibliophiles, curators of Enlightenment exhibitions, and heritage digitization projects -

Voltaire - Œuvres complètes de Voltaire - 1824 - 60 Volumes - R. Dupont -
15 000 pages -

Good condition of bindings, works in their original red half-leather, marbled boards, wear from use, some minor defects on the covers, some chafing at the heads with some material loss, some corners worn, speckled edges, smooth spine ornately decorated, gilded titles, pagination and author’s name gilded –

Good interior condition, some stains, small vignette on the title page, marbled endpapers in good condition, vast set –

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