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The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version

42 volumes : 22 cm · "Forty-two volumes." · "One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures and curious fac-similes." · Title page in red and black · Each volume has a half-title page with abbreviated contents and a list of plates; most volumes have a contents page · Each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress · "Limited to one thousand sets for America and Great Britain." · Limited to one thousand sets for America and Great Britain. This set numbered 955 · v. I. Introductory and biographical. Victor Hugo's oration. Candide. Poetical dissertations. -- v. II-IV. Romances. -- v. V-XIV. A philosophical dictionary. -- v. XV-XIX. The dramatic works of Voltaire. -- v. XX-XXI. History of Charles XII. -- v. XXII-XXIII. Age of Louis XIV. -- v. XXIV-XXX. Ancient and modern history. -- v. XXXI-XXXII. Annals of the empire. -- v. XXXIII. History of the war of 1741. -- v. XXXIV-XXXV. History of the Russian empire under Peter the Great. -- v. XXXVI. The Lisbon earthquake, and other poems. -- v. XXXVII. Essays on literature, philosophy, art, history. -- v. XXXVIII. The Henriade: Letters and miscellanies.

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