Gabriel Grasset. Signed receipt dated 1 Juin 1776 for the MS of the Histoire de l’établissement du Christianisme, which he undertakes to print. With signed postscript dated 23rd June 1774

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Gabriel Grasset. Signed receipt dated 1 Juin 1776 for the MS of the Histoire de l’établissement du Christianisme, which he undertakes to print. With signed postscript dated 23rd June 1774

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J’ai recu de Monsieur Faure un Manuscrit intitulé Histoire véritable de l’Etablissement du Christianisme, par Mr. Mallé secretaire du Lord Bolinbroke.

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Receipt dated 1 Juin 1776 for the MS of the Histoire de l’établissement du Christianisme signed by Gabriel Grasset, with a postscript dated 23 June 1774.

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Gabriel Grasset writes that he has received from Mr. Faure a manuscript copy of Histoire l’Etablissement du Christianisme by Mr. Mallé, secretary to Lord Bolingbroke, a text pseudonymously written by Voltaire. Grasset says that he will print the text in octavo with wide margins and in fine type, and that he will provide two dozen well-bound copies to Mr. Faure in Geneva on 1st June 1774. In a postscript, Grasset promises not to sell any copies of the text in this country in Geneva. Theodore Besterman notes that if the dates provided in this MS are correct, the composition of the work must be brought forward from 1777.

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1 f.

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242 x 108 mm

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The leaf features a very slight vertical fold line on the left-hand side of p.1 to create a margin. There is a small smudge at the top of f.1r.

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