Voltaire 178 portraits, frontispieces...copper engravings, steel engravings, etchings

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Collection of 178 portraits of Voltaire: plates on heavy paper from the 18th & 19th centuries engraved & 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 the 33 Essays on physiognomy of Voltaire by Denon… 53 small portraits executed by the same artist bear no signature (see our 15th photo).
Half‑leather binding with signed corners (V. Niedrée), gold numerals set into the lower spine, gold head, rounded corners, missing headpieces, a partially cracked hinge, fresh interior, 28 × 20 × 6 cm.