La Henriade: Nouvelle édition
by Voltaire
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG, wear to leather (especially around spine, stain on edge of pages near front, mild foxing, pencil marking on back flyleaf, ot
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez la Vve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, Panckoucke and Nyon, 1770. Hardcover. VG, wear to leather (especially around spine, stain on edge of pages near front, mild foxing, pencil marking on back flyleaf, otherwise remarkably tight and clean given age.. Full leather binding with gilt borders, gilt dentelles on turn-ins, 8 compartments, and gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Marbled endsheets. Engraved frontispiece and title page illustration. Engraved half-titles, 10 engraved plates. French. 272 pp. Volume I of II only. The first 8 chants/cantos of Voltaire's (1694-1778) epic poem Henriade. One of only two epics written by Voltaire, the poem concerned the life of Henry IV of France. This volume was published within Voltaire's lifetime, just 8 years before his death.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178028
- Title
- La Henriade: Nouvelle édition
- Author
- Voltaire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG, wear to leather (especially around spine, stain on edge of pages near front, mild foxing, pencil marking on back flyleaf, ot
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chez la Vve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, Panckoucke and Nyon
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1770
- Keywords
- Literature Young and Old, philosophy, history, biography, poem, Voltaire, epic poetry ; Voltaire ; ;
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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