Letters Concerning the English Nation.

First edition of Voltaire's famed collection of essays celebrating England, including the first appearance of the famous story about Isaac Newton and the falling apple, as well as letters about William Penn and American Quakers. Octavo, bound in contemporary speckled calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges speckled red. In very good condition, spine rebacked. Ownership signature to the second front free endpaper. A very nice example.