Book title:

Bible (la) enfin expliquée, by Voltaire

Keywords: Biblical study, Christianity, Chronology, Philosophie, Religion, Sacred Texts, Sceptical works, Scriptures, Theology

Parisian category: La Sainte Bible & commentaires

Illegality: Darnton’s Corpus (91 copies requested in 8 orders); **Joseph II’s Index (Austrian Empire, 1788)**; Poinçot’s Inventory of the Bastille (France, 1789)

Acquired: 218 full copies

Sold and Given: 238 full copies

Returns: 25 full copies

N.B. Lower and upper limits (where given) are calculated by treating each incomplete set - i.e. each set containing some but not all volumes of the edition - as 0 and 1 respectively. Click 'events for this book' below for details.

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Editions:

Full title: Bible (la) enfin expliquée par plusieurs aumôniers de S.M.L.R.D.P.
Edition type (by origin): Other Swiss editions

Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: London [Geneva], 1777
Details: 2 volumes, in-8°, pages: [4], 274; [4], 260

Notes: Attribution - sourced from Geneva in 1777. Brown 'Gabriel Grasset' attributes this, the 3rd edition, to Gabriel Grasset, who offered the STN 100 copies in June 1777. However, the Grasset copies were eventually declined by the STN, who instead sourced the work from Jean-Samuel Cailler. Several copies of a Dutch edition of this work were also traded by the STN, but is has not proven possible to disaggregate these copies from this record.

Full title: Bible (la) enfin expliquée
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

Notes: Attribution - editions not identified, several produced. Durand dossier shows STN traded in editions published in Geneva and Holland. It has not always been possible from STN manuscripts to isolate which transactions relate to which editions.