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Ex libris of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres complètes. 66 volumes in 8vo. 202x125 mm. Quarter leather binding and marbled cardboard, gilt titles and gilt rules and blind tooled spines, red edges. Portrait of the Author in the first volume, drawn and engraved by Saint-Aubin, many plates engraved in copper by Moreau the Younger. Ex libris 'Feodorovna' engraved on copper, glued on the inside covers. Occasional foxing, slight traces of wear, good condition. Renouard edition of Voltaire's complete works, richly illustrated. Specimen belonged to the last Empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna. The ex-libris, surmounted by a crown with the initials AL underneath, bears the motto "naught but the highest shall content my soul" on one ribbon and the name "Féodorovna" on another ribbon. Below the image are the initials of the engraver W.P.B. (William Phillips Barrett) and the date 1904.Alexandra Feodorovna, 1872-1918, princess of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine, favorite niece of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, married Tsar Nicholas II in 1895; she was she was shot, with the rest of her family, on 17 July 1918.It is the best collective edition of Voltaire published under the Restoration, and one of the few illustrated, from a suite of Moreau the Younger in the possession of Renouard, who made annotations and additions, many of which were communicated to him by M. Clogenson. Here appear for the first time "Les sentiments des Citoyens", articles supplied by Voltaire to the Gazette littéraire, etc... The last two volumes contain an analytical table established by Miger.
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Ex libris of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres complètes. 66 volumes in 8vo. 202x125 mm. Quarter leather binding and marbled cardboard, gilt titles and gilt rules and blind tooled spines, red edges. Portrait of the Author in the first volume, drawn and engraved by Saint-Aubin, many plates engraved in copper by Moreau the Younger. Ex libris 'Feodorovna' engraved on copper, glued on the inside covers. Occasional foxing, slight traces of wear, good condition. Renouard edition of Voltaire's complete works, richly illustrated. Specimen belonged to the last Empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna. The ex-libris, surmounted by a crown with the initials AL underneath, bears the motto "naught but the highest shall content my soul" on one ribbon and the name "Féodorovna" on another ribbon. Below the image are the initials of the engraver W.P.B. (William Phillips Barrett) and the date 1904.Alexandra Feodorovna, 1872-1918, princess of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine, favorite niece of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, married Tsar Nicholas II in 1895; she was she was shot, with the rest of her family, on 17 July 1918.It is the best collective edition of Voltaire published under the Restoration, and one of the few illustrated, from a suite of Moreau the Younger in the possession of Renouard, who made annotations and additions, many of which were communicated to him by M. Clogenson. Here appear for the first time "Les sentiments des Citoyens", articles supplied by Voltaire to the Gazette littéraire, etc... The last two volumes contain an analytical table established by Miger.
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