Collection of 178 Portrait Engravings of Voltaire

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Collection of 178 portraits of Voltaire: plates on firm paper from the 18th and 19th centuries, engraved and after Barrois, Largillière, Riffaut, Tardieu, Beisson, Couché, Lebrun, Bertonnier, Dupin, Robert Sayer, de Latour, Pourvoyeur, Langlois, Lemoyne, Cathelin, Hopwood, Loitard, Bonvoisin, Petit, Balechov, Melu, Marillier, Lebeau, Condee, Ducreux, Cazenave, Loir, Lefèvre, Frilley, Soliman, Bosselman, Simonet, Vivant Denon, Quenedey, Scrivan, Bonneville, Benoist, Le Coeur, Mariage, Deveria, Potrelle, Moreau, Miger, J. Vernet, Saint Aubin, Queverdo, Massol, Vérité, Desenne, Touzé, Chasselat, Mme Lamothe, Eisen, Le Mire, Fauchery, Le Bas, including 33 essays on the physiognomy of Voltaire by Denon. 53 small portraits by the same artist bear no signature. Half-leather binding with signed corners (V. Niedrée), gilded ornaments set into spine base, gilt head, blunted corners, missing capitals, one spine partially cracked, fresh interior condition. 28 x 20 x 6 cm.