Subject: Voltaire
Literature of the Enlightenment: a dozen titles bound in a single volume
The pieces range from poetry to comic drama and translated verse from Latin, in short, a representative sampling of mid-eighteenth-century French literature, brought together by a contemporary reader.
Monsieur Guillaume ou le Disputeur, by Théophile Duvernet.
A controversial pamphlet by Voltaire's first biographer in contemporary cartonnage.
