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720 - VOLTAIRE Complete Works [...]. An edition dedicated to lovers of the art of typography [...]. Paris: Jules Didot the Elder, Dufour & Co., 1827–1829, 4 vols., in-8°, unbound. (uncut, extensive foxing and water stains, a few small marginal tears, title page of Vol. I missing). Raspberry-colored long-grain half-basane, spine with gilt floral raised bands (rubbed, spine faded, cap ends worn, one jaw scratched). Edition published in installments with continuous pagination, divided as follows: [I. Poetic Works]. - II. Philosophical Works. - III. Historical Works. - IV. Correspondence. Frontispiece portrait of Voltaire engraved by A. Tardieu after Houdon. Ref. Bengesco IV: 2157. - General Catalog of Printed Books of the National Library, vol. CCXIV, I:274.
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VOLTAIRE Complete Works [...]. An edition dedicated to lovers of the art of typography [...]. Paris: Jules Didot the Elder, Dufour & Co., 1827–1829, 4 vols., in-8°, unbound. (uncut, extensive foxing and water stains, a few small marginal tears, title page of Vol. I missing). Raspberry-colored long-grain half-basane, spine with gilt floral raised bands (rubbed, spine faded, cap ends worn, one jaw scratched). Edition published in installments with continuous pagination, divided as follows: [I. Poetic Works]. - II. Philosophical Works. - III. Historical Works. - IV. Correspondence. Frontispiece portrait of Voltaire engraved by A. Tardieu after Houdon. Ref. Bengesco IV: 2157. - General Catalog of Printed Books of the National Library, vol. CCXIV, I:274.
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