Life of Voltaire. by PARTON, James

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-639; vi, 653; engraved portrait frontispiece, t.e.g., rear hinge starting in vol. 2, light edgewear, else very good in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered upper cover and spine.

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcovers, two-volume set complete. Matching dark brown cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. 639; vi, 653 pages; index, bibliography, frontispiece portrait in each volume - one a quite formal portrait of Voltaire in his prime, the other a sketch of him in old age. Covers show light wear, name on title pages. This is the second printing, the first published a year earlier. A comprehensive life of the great Enlightenment writer. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 383406

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Life of the Enlightenment writer, in a handsome half-calf binding, brown with red & black leather labels. Parton was a popular biographer in his day, noted for his novelistic style; he also wrote lives of Franklin, Jefferson, Jackson, Greeley, & Burr. Volume 1 is the first edition of 1881, with the same date on title & copyright pages; volume 2 is a later printing, with 1882 on the title page. Both volumes show some wear & rubbing, scuffs here & there, corners bumped. Text clean; [2], 639; vi, 653 pages; index, bibliography, frontispiece portrait in each volume - one a quite formal portrait of Voltaire in his prime, the other a sketch of him in old age. . First Edition. Half Calf. Good. Octavo. Set.