VOLTAIRE. Complete works of Voltaire. - Lot 121

VOLTAIRE. Complete works of Voltaire. Published in Paris by Lefèvre and Deterville in 1818. In 42 volumes of In octavo / In-8 format. Beige shagreened calf. Smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, author and title in gilt lettering on green morocco. Gilded fillets on the edges. Mottled edges and back covers. Contemporary binding. Some rubbing, some headpieces loose, corners slightly dulled. Few light freckles on the paper. Collection of the complete works of Voltaire, the celebrated 18th-century French writer and philosopher, an emblematic and central figure of the Enlightenment. This is a new edition published in 1818, with Volume I featuring a portrait-frontispiece of the author engraved by L. Petit after Delatour. The set is composed as follows: Vie de Voltaire (one volume). Théâtre (5 volumes). Poetry (3 volumes). Essai les Moeurs (3 volumes). Siècles de louis XIV et Louis XV (2 volumes). History of Charles XII (1 volume). Annales de l'Empire (1 volume). Mélanges historiques (1 volume). Politics and legislation (1 volume). Physics (1 volume). Philosophie générale (2 volumes). Entretiens philosophiques (1 volume). Philosophical dictionary (4 volumes). Novels (1 volume). Facéties et mélanges littéraires (2 volumes). Commentary on Corneille (1 volume). General correspondence (8 volumes). Correspondence with sovereigns (2 volumes). Correspondence with d'Alembert (1 volume), general and analytical table of Voltaire's works by P.A.M. Miger published in 1820. Interior well preserved. Very good condition.