The works of Voltaire
Subtitle: a contemporary version
By: a critique and biography by the Rt. Hon. John Morley ; with notes by Tobias Smollett, revised and modernized ; new translations by William F. Fleming ; and, an introduction by Oliver H.G. Leigh
Contributors: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771, editor; Fleming, William F., translator; Leigh, Oliver Herbrand Gordon, writer of introduction; Morley, John, 1838-1923
Edition: Edition de la pacification.
Publisher: E.R. DuMont
Published: 1901
Language: eng
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Works
Notes: "Forty-two volumes."

"One hundred and sixty-eight designs, comprising reproductions of rare old engravings, steel plates, photogravures and curious fac-similes."

Title page in red and black.

Each volume has a half-title page with abbreviated contents and a list of plates; most volumes have a contents page.

Each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

"Limited to one thousand sets for America and Great Britain."

Limited to one thousand sets for America and Great Britain. This set numbered 955.
Table of contents: title: v. I. Introductory and biographical. Victor Hugo's oration. Candide. Poetical dissertations.; title: v. II-IV. Romances.; title: v. V-XIV. A philosophical dictionary.; title: v. XV-XIX. The dramatic works of Voltaire.; title: v. XX-XXI. History of Charles XII.; title: v. XXII-XXIII. Age of Louis XIV.; title: v. XXIV-XXX. Ancient and modern history.; title: v. XXXI-XXXII. Annals of the empire.; title: v. XXXIII. History of the war of 1741.; title: v. XXXIV-XXXV. History of the Russian empire under Peter the Great.; title: v. XXXVI. The Lisbon earthquake, and other poems.; title: v. XXXVII. Essays on literature, philosophy, art, history.; title: v. XXXVIII. The Henriade: Letters and miscellanies.; title: v. XXXIX. Short studies in English and American subjects.; title: v. XL-XLI. The Maid of Orleans (La Pucelle d'Orléans).; title: v. XLII. A biographical critique of Voltaire, by John Morley.