Voltaire - La Henriade en dix chants - 1768

[VOLTAIRE]

La Henriade, in ten cantos, preceded, accompanied, & followed by all the pieces relating to this poem and to epic poetry in general; to which have been added the Temple of Taste, the Discourses on Man, Fontenoy's Poems, on the Lisbon Disaster, on natural law.

Geneva, s.i., 1768.

1 volume in-4 (26.5 x 20 cm), purple calfskin (binding of the period), spine with raised bands ornamented, marbled edges,[4]-xxxii, 483 pages (complete). Corners worn, tailcap shaved, upper joint split, beginning of crack at the lower joint, foxing sparse. Acceptable condition.

Volume I only of the “Complete Collection of the Works of M. de Voltaire”

Frontispiece and 10 plates engraved by J.-J. Flipart, A.-J. Duclos, D. Née, J.-F. Rousseau, de Lorraine, J.-B. Simonet, C. Le Vasseur and N. de Launay, after Gravelot, portrait of Henri IV engraved by Cathelin, after Jannet and portrait of Gravelot engraved by J. Massard, after La Tour.

Good copy.