Collection of 46 unbound poems, including a copy of Voltaire’s ‘Épître à Frédéric le Grand’, 1730s-80s
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Sotheby’s, Lot.8, ‘Poetry’
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Collection of 46 unbound poems, including a copy of Voltaire’s ‘Épître à Frédéric le Grand’, 1730s-80s
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A collection of 46 unbound poems, including a copy of Voltaire’s ‘Épître à Frédéric le Grand’, written in 1747.
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The collection was compiled between 1730 and 1780, though the majority of the collection was formed by 1740.
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Unbound
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1730-1789
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From the collections of Holywell House, Hampshire, the home of the Villiers family, Earls of Clarendon. Passed at the Sotheby’s sale in London on 13 December 2016 (Lot. 8) where the collection sold for £2,750.
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