La Henriade

Collection Data

Names
Voltaire, 1694-1778 (Author)
Le Moyne, François, 1688-1737 (Illustrator)
Micheux, Michel Nicolas, 1688-1733 (Illustrator)
Vleughels, Nicolas, 1668-1737 (Illustrator)
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1688-1754 (Engraver)
Desplaces, Louis, 1682-1739 (Engraver)
Dupuis, Charles, 1685-1742 (Engraver)
Dupuis, Nicolas Gabriel, 1698-1771 (Engraver)
Fletcher, Henry, fl. 1715-1738 (Engraver)
Jeaurat, Edme, 1688-1738 (Engraver)
Poilly, Nicolas de, 1675-1747 (Engraver)
Lépicié, François Bernard, 1698-1755 (Engraver)
Surugue, Louis, de, 1686-1762 (Engraver)
Tardieu, Nicolas Henri, 1674-1749 (Engraver)
Troy, Jean-François de, 1679-1752 (Illustrator)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1728
Place: Londres
Library locations
Rare Book Division
Shelf locator: *KGV (Voltaire. Henriade. 1728) 00-222
Topics
France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610
Genres
Books
Prints
Illustrations
Notes
Citation/reference: For detailed description of illustrations, cf. article by Juliette Rigal in Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, v. 32 (1965), p. 23-72
Content: Illustrations: 32 prints : etching, engraving ; full-page (11) and plate mark 13 x 17 cm. (1), ca. 9 x 18 cm. (10), ca. 11 x 12 cm. (10). Comprise frontispiece, t.p. vignette and full-page ill., headpiece and tailpiece to each canto.
Citation/reference: ESTC (RLIN) T222176; Foxon V112 ; BN, v. 214, col. 843, no. 1685 ; Bengesco, G. Voltaire, I, no. 365 ; Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 125 ; Taylor, O.R. La Henriade, éditions imprimées (In Voltaire. Works , 1968-, v. 2, p. 233-253), VI.28a
Content: Stephen Fox, Earl of Ilchester (armorial bookplate), William Rees-Mogg (autograph).
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: [6], 10, 202 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Contemporary red morocco, gilt; rebacked.
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13553530
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 89c5ea00-c6ca-012f-c69e-3c075448cc4b
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