Voltaire - Œuvres complètes de Voltaire - 1817

Fascinating collection of this monumental edition that encompasses the entire intellectual output of Voltaire.

This edition aims to rehabilitate the Voltairian heritage in its entirety, at a time when Enlightenment ideals are in tension with the return of monarchy.

The volumes are organized by genre and theme: Philosophical Tales (Candide, Zadig, Micromégas…), Plays (Oedipus, Zaire, Muhammad…), Historical Essays (Charles XII, Louis XIV, Russia, Customs…), Philosophical Treatises (Philosophical Dictionary, English Letters, Treatise on Tolerance…), Poetry, Pamphlets, Biblical Commentaries, Scientific Texts, and Correspondences (more than 20,000 letters).

Each volume is carefully printed with clear typography and marginal critical notes. Voltaire appears as a polemicist, playwright, historian, poet, encyclopedist, and epistolary writer, articulating a thought based on reason, freedom of conscience, critique of dogmas, and engagement against injustice.

It allows mapping the intellectual networks of the 18th century, tracking Voltaire's stylistic and argumentative evolution, and analyzing the discursive strategies of an author who shaped modernity.

It also serves as a key resource for bibliophiles, exhibition curators on the Enlightenment, and heritage digitization projects.

Voltaire - Complete Works of Voltaire - 1817 - Volumes I to XLI - Lefèvre -
Approximately 600 pages per volume.

Good condition of the bindings, books in their original full brown leather, with signs of use, minor tears on some heads, rubbed spines and corners, gilded edges, smooth ornated backs, gilded titles and volume numbers on maroon morocco pieces, gilded borders framing the covers.

Good interior condition, browning, works enriched with beautiful fold-out plates in the volume concerning Newton's philosophy, marbled endpapers.

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