Lettres Ecrites De Londres Sur Les Anglois, Et Autres Sujets (Letters Written in London Concerning the English Nation)

VOLTAIRE (AROUET, François-Marie).

Lettres Ecrites De Londres Sur Les Anglois, Et Autres Sujets (Letters Written in London Concerning the English Nation).

France: Basile , 1734.

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First French Edition of Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation

First French edition of Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation, first published in English in 1733. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, raised bands, gilt titles to the spine, red morocco spine label, double gilt ruled. In very good condition.

Letters Concerning the English Nation is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729. The volume was first published in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as an attack on the French system of government and was rapidly suppressed. Most modern English-language versions are based on a translation of the French text rather than Voltaire's English one.