Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Letters concerning the English nation. / By Mr. de Voltaire.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1984
3298.3493.12
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcpv63g951w
Publisher
London, : Printed for C. Davis ... and A. Lyon ..., 1733.
Language
English
Date Created
1733
Extent
[16] , 253, [19] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
BN CCXIV, 3701
Bengesco, v. 2, p. 11
ESTC T137614
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Translation of: Lettres philosophiques.
First edition, translated by John Lockman. The Letters were first published in French in the following year, 1734. cf. Bengesco, G. Voltaire, v. 2, p. 9-14.
The ornaments are those used by William Bowyer. Cf. ESTC.
Title vignette; tail-pieces.
Page [1] at end blank.
Leaves A4 and G3 are cancels.
Includes "A letter concerning the burning of Altena, as related in the History of Charles XII. King of Sweden": p. [245]-253.
Errata at foot of index p. [18].
Advertisements: p. [15]-[16] at front.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary panelled calf; rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject
Great Britain—Intellectual life
Great Britain—Religion
English literature—18th century—History and criticism

Physical Characteristics

File Count
299

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

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