Receipt signed by Gabriel Grasset for the manuscript of ‘Histoire de l’établissement du Christianisme’, which he undertakes to print, dated 1 June 1774
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Receipt signed by Gabriel Grasset for the manuscript of ‘Histoire de l’établissement du Christianisme’, which he undertakes to print, dated 1 June 1774
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Incipit Diplomatic:
J’ai recu de Monsieur Faure un Manuscrit intitulé Histoire véritable de l’Etablissement du Christianisme, par Mr. Mallé secretaire du Lord Bolinbroke.
Incipit Modernised:
J’ai reçu de Monsieur Faure un manuscrit intitulé Histoire véritable de l’établissement du christianisme, par Mr. Mallé secrétaire de Lord Bolinbroke.
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Brief Summary:
Receipt dated 1 June 1774 for the MS of the Histoire de l’établissement du Christianisme signed by Gabriel Grasset, with a postscript dated 23 June 1774.
Detailed Summary:
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. This work was 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. The receipt is dated 1 June 1774.
In a postscript, Grasset promises not to sell any copies of the text 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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1
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Unbound
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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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Grasset has added a postscript to the end of the receipt.
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[Geneva]
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Bought at auction by Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) at Sotheby’s, London on 11th June 1968 for £5.
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