Book title:

Questions sur l'Encyclopédie, by Voltaire

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Literary studies, Miscellaneous essays, Philosophie, Sceptical works

Parisian category: Philosophes modernes

Illegality: Darnton’s Corpus (426 copies requested in 63 orders); Joseph II’s Index (Austrian Empire, 1788)

Printed: between 0 and 22,500 copies

Acquired: between 50 and 58 copies

Sold and Given: between 808 and 12,031 copies

Returns: between 7 and 19 copies

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Editions:

Full title: Questions sur l'Encyclopédie
Edition type (by origin): STN editions

Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [Neuchâtel]: [Société Typographique de Neuchâtel], 1771-1772
Details: 9 volumes, in-8°, pages: [2], 376; [2] 390, [2 bl.]; [2 bl.], [2], 363, [1 bl.]; [2 bl.], [2], 377, [3 bl.]; [2], 373, [1 bl.]; [2], 351, [1 bl.]; [2 bl.], [2], 364; [2], 369, [5]; 378

STN Catalogue 1785
STN Livres philosophiques 1775

Notes: Attribution - known STN edition.

Full title: Questions sur l'Encyclopédie: distribuées en forme de dictionnaire
Edition type (by origin): British editions

Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: London, 1779
Details: 8 volumes

LFB Catalogue 1787

Notes: Attribution - Fauche-Borel Catalogue (1787) information.