Printed presentation copy of the 1728 edition La Henriade with a manuscript dedication to Queen Charlotte written in Voltaire’s hand
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ALMA : 990213862870107026
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Printed presentation copy of the 1728 edition La Henriade with a manuscript dedication to Queen Charlotte written in Voltaire’s hand
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Brief Summary:
Printed presentation copy of the 1728 edition La Henriade with a manuscript dedication to Queen Charlotte. The dedication is written in Voltaire’s hand.
Detailed Summary:
This copy of the “fourth” London edition of 1728 includes a dedication in Voltaire’s hand that is dated 25 April 1728. In the dedication, Voltaire presents the edition to Queen Caroline, adding that he waited until the fourth edition was ready to send a copy of the work to the Queen as it was ‘plus correcte et plus épurée’. Despite his assertions in this dedication, Voltaire had written ten days earlier to present the Queen with a first edition copy of the work.
Voltaire’s dedication is, unusually, bound at the back of the volume and is upside down.
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Part of a bound volume. The dedication has been bound-in upside down.
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The final folio of the dedication has been dog-eared. There is some minor ink transfer throughout from text on the facing pages.
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History
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c.1728
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London
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Bought by the Bodleian Library, Oxford in 2018 from Otto Haas for £13,000.
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vol.2
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