[Rarebooks] FS: 1st English ed. of Voltaire's "Critical Essays on Dramatic Poetry" London: 1761

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet. CRITICAL ESSAYS ON DRAMATIC POETRY. With Notes by the Translator. London: L. Davis and C. Reymers. 1761. 12mo. xii,274,(2)pp. Complete with (at front) a leaf of ads followed by the half-title, and one other leaf of ads at back. Orig. calf, gilt ruled. A small area of worm damage to the bottom edge of the rear cover, but a fine copy.    $475.00 trade discount allowed)
The first edition in English; the translator is unknown. With an essay on Shakespeare and one on the learned women of history.

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