[Rarebooks] fa:VOLTAIRE - HENRIADE - FIRST ENGLISH VERSE EDITION -1732

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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[Voltaire:] Henriade. An Epick Poem. In Ten Canto’s. Translated from  
the French into English Blank Verse. To which are now added, the  
Argument to each Canto, and Large Notes Historical and  Critical.  
London: Printed for C. Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1732. FIRST  
EDITION. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with  
raised bands and titles in gilt; 8vo; vi + [20] + 311 + [1] pp.;  
woodcut decorations, engraved frontispiece. Foxon L215; ESTC T137613.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies printed, of this English  
translation by John Lockman — 'l'illustre Lockman" as Voltaire's  
French followers dubbed him. Handsome quarter calf binding with some  
modest wear to the edges. A previous owner (or more likely his/her  
offspring) has neatly but inexplicably hand-tinted parts of the  
frontispiece and title-page in yellow; translator's name added in ink  
to the title; a few occasional small spots, some dust-soiling to the  
top edges, otherwise the contents are very bright, crisp and clean,  
firmly bound. Front paste-down with the bookplate of author and  
scholar Louis I. Bredvold (The Brave New World of the Enlightenment;  
The Philosophy of Edmund Burke; etc.).