From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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2 volumes. First Edition in English. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece in each volume, engraved head and tail pieces throughout. 8vo, bound in an attractive full speckled calf of the period, the spines with gilt ruled raised bands and gilt tooled devices in the compartments, red morocco labels, lettered in gilt. viii, 436; 292, 90, [index]. A handsome set, well preserved with light age, the front board to Vol. I detached, the textblocks crisp and unpressed, mellowed lightly as to be expected. RARE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Satirist, novelist, historian, poet, dramatist, polemicist, moralist, critic, and correspondent, Voltaire was the universal genius of the Enlightenment. Welcomed in the free-thinking circles of Parisian society, he was committed to the Bastille for his satires in 1717-18, and again exiled to England in 1726-9. The remainder of his life was divided between long periods of retreat in the provinces (first in Champagne with Mme du Chatelet, finally at Ferney near Geneva) and brief returns to metropolitan centers (Paris, Versailles, Berlin). His literary principles were fundamentally neoclassical. His history SIECLE DE LOUIS XIV (1751) disregards providence as an explanatory principle seeking instead evidence of social and moral progress. [Drabble]. A work superior to his SIECLE DE LOUIS XV, this history contains "a great miscellany of interesting matter, treated by a man of great acuteness and unsurpassed power of writing, who also had access to much important private information" (Encyc. Brit.). An uncommon find in contemporary bindings in original state. Seller Inventory # 32826
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE AGE OF LEWIS XIV. Translated From the ...
Publisher: London for R. Dodsley 1752
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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