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VOLTAIRE (François Marie Arouet, dit, 1694-1778) La Henriade...

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03.11.2020 14:30UTC +02:00
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Lot 57 | VOLTAIRE (François Marie Arouet, dit, 1694-1778) La Henriade...
VOLTAIRE (François Marie Arouet, dit, 1694-1778). La Henriade, avec les variantes. Paris : P. Didot, fils aîné de F.A. Didot l'aîné, 1790.



Exemplaire enrichi de cette luxueuse édition. Bengesco I, 404 ; Brunet V, 1361 ; Cohen-de Ricci 1029.



Grand in-4 (321 x 235 mm). Tirage limité à 250 exemplaires sur papier-vélin d’Angoulême avec de nouveaux caractères gravés par Firmin Didot. Exemplaire enrichi de l’estampe avant la lettre du frontispice pour l’édition de 1789 mentionné par Cohen (« dans certains exemplaires un portrait ajouté de Voltaire gravé par Langlois d’après La Tour ») et de 124 planches d’après Eisen, Gravelot, Troy, certaines sur chine, incluant également des estampes dans les trois états (avant la lettre, avec la lettre et en eau-forte) de la suite de 12 planches dessinées et gravées à l’eau-forte pour l’édition de 1789 par Quéverdo et terminées au burin, ainsi que des figures de Moreau gravées pour l’édition de 1789. Reliure signée R. Raparlier, maroquin bleu nuit, triple filet doré en encadrement, dos à nerfs richement orné avec des fleurs de lys, pièce de titre, roulette fleurdelysée en encadrement intérieur, tranches dorées (quelques rousseurs, des mouillures plus importantes sur certaines des figures de Moreau, quelques griffures sur les plats). Provenance : Antoine-Augustin Renouard (ex-libris manuscrit « Ant. Aug. Renouard 1790 ») -- Eugène Paillet (ex-libris).

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