La Henriade / par Monsieur de Voltaire, avec les variantes, & un Essai sur la poésie epique.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Contributor:

L'Honoré, François, 1673?-1748?, bookseller.

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 17 cm (12mo in 8s and 4s)

Edition:

Nouvelle édition, enrichie de figures.

Fingerprint:

n.n- deue n.n: RoCo (3) 1766 (R) v.1

Iln- ess. usr; nibe (7) 1766 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam : Chez François L'Honoré, MDCCLXVI [1766]

Notes:

First published in 1723 with title: La ligue, ou Henri le Grand.

Vol. 1: xxiii, [1], 309, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates; v.2: 191, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates.

Title in red and black.

Title vignettes, factotums, and some head- and tail-pieces are type ornaments; initials and most of the head- and tail-pieces are woodcuts.

Engraved portrait of Voltaire as frontispiece to v.1.

Illustrations are later states of the plates used in the Amsterdam 1764 edition, which in turn are the same as those used in the Rouen 1752 edition. Cf. Bibliothèque nationale, v.214, ptie. 2, no. 1714 and 1707.

OCLC:

8597733

Bound With:

Vol. 2 bound with (as issued): Fougeret de Monbron, Louis Charles. La Henriade travestie. A Amsterdam : Chez François L'Honoré, MDCCLXVI [1766]