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Commentaire historique sur les ouvres de l'auteur de La Henriade, by Voltaire

Keywords:  Autobiography, Biography, Lives and letters, Voltaire

Parisian category: Histoire universelle & particulière

Illegality:  Darnton’s Corpus (160 copies requested in 25 orders)

Printed:  1,100 full copies

Acquired:  123 full copies

Sold and Given:  799 full copies

Returns:  34 full copies

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Full title: Commentaire historique sur les oeuvres de l'auteur de "La Henriade"
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown
Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?], 1776
Details: 1 volume
Notes: Attribution - edition not identified, although sourced from Geneva in 1776, so probably the edition published there by Gabriel Grasset.
Full title: Commentaire historique sur les ouvres de l'auteur de La Henriade, avec les pièces originales et les preuvres
Edition type (by origin): STN editions
Author(s): Voltaire
Language(s): French
Publication: Neuchâtel: Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, 1776
Details: 1 volume, in-8°, pages: [4], 203, [i.e. 204]
LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1777
STN Catalogue 1779
STN Catalogue 1785
Notes: Attribution - known STN edition.