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263 - Voltaire’s Library, Voltaire’s Library
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Voltaire’s Library, Voltaire’s Library A beautiful set of Voltaire’s Œuvres complètes, published in Gotha by Charles-Emmanuel Ettinger between 1784 and 1790 in 71 volumes. The work is bound in a sturdy contemporary binding with gold decoration and titles on the spine. A true publishing masterpiece and one of the greatest 18th-century endeavors to collect and preserve the work of the great philosopher and leading figure of the European Enlightenment, encompassing the extraordinary variety of his philosophical, historical, literary, and theatrical writings. The scale of this undertaking attests to Voltaire’s immense international fame and the desire to preserve for posterity the entire body of work of one of the most influential intellectuals of the 18th century. Voltaire’s Complete Works (71 volumes)
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