Life Of Voltaire

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… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881.. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo. (21.5 x 14.5 cm). Original grey cloth gilt, blue-coated endpapers, top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece to each volume. Light shelfwear and minor discolouration to spines, generally a very good set in the bright original cloth.

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.

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… Read more about this item

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Life of Voltaire:Vol. 2.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Life of Voltaire:Vol. 1.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.