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VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet dit). Letter signed "V" [to the Geneva printer and bookseller Gabriel Cramer]. S.l., [October 1767]. One p. 1/3 in-4, trace of stamp in margin. BEAUTIFUL LETTER CONCERNING SEVERAL EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS. "This world-cy, as I have seen it for a long time, is a perpetual war. My dear Caro must know how I treated DUCHENE'S EDITION "AU TEMPLE DU GOUT" OU DU DEGOUT, and how I said and said again, printed and reprinted that THIS IGNORANT'S EDITION WAS DETESTABLE. His widow, who knows no more than he did, has made a new in-12 edition in line with that of my dear Caro. May God grant that it is accurate. I don't know whether Duchêne and his associates have taken out a privilege. All I can do and say is that I recognize no other edition than that of my dear Caro and those that will conform to it. I will certify that Panckoucke's edition is perfect, although I have not seen it. The said Panckoucke must be perfectly aware of the edition of LA HENRIADE and the plays by Duchêne, who Duchêne never knew I had done any other work. I believe that his edition is in-12 and that it does not have the insolence to defy an in-4° which is made for libraries. I've been told that Mr de Sartines [Antoine de Sartine, Lieutenant General of the Paris Police] greatly favors his friend Pankouke. That's all I knew. I'll do whatever my dear Caro wants...". He is referring here to the Parisian printer-librarians Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne (whose widow Marie-Antoinette Cailleau took over the business in 1765) and Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.
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VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet dit). Letter signed "V" [to the Geneva printer and bookseller Gabriel Cramer]. S.l., [October 1767]. One p. 1/3 in-4, trace of stamp in margin. BEAUTIFUL LETTER CONCERNING SEVERAL EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS. "This world-cy, as I have seen it for a long time, is a perpetual war. My dear Caro must know how I treated DUCHENE'S EDITION "AU TEMPLE DU GOUT" OU DU DEGOUT, and how I said and said again, printed and reprinted that THIS IGNORANT'S EDITION WAS DETESTABLE. His widow, who knows no more than he did, has made a new in-12 edition in line with that of my dear Caro. May God grant that it is accurate. I don't know whether Duchêne and his associates have taken out a privilege. All I can do and say is that I recognize no other edition than that of my dear Caro and those that will conform to it. I will certify that Panckoucke's edition is perfect, although I have not seen it. The said Panckoucke must be perfectly aware of the edition of LA HENRIADE and the plays by Duchêne, who Duchêne never knew I had done any other work. I believe that his edition is in-12 and that it does not have the insolence to defy an in-4° which is made for libraries. I've been told that Mr de Sartines [Antoine de Sartine, Lieutenant General of the Paris Police] greatly favors his friend Pankouke. That's all I knew. I'll do whatever my dear Caro wants...". He is referring here to the Parisian printer-librarians Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne (whose widow Marie-Antoinette Cailleau took over the business in 1765) and Charles-Joseph Panckoucke.
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