[ CHUCKLES ] Questions about the Encyclopedia by amateurs. N - Lot 67

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[ CHUCKLES ] Questions about the Encyclopedia by amateurs. N - Lot 67
[ CHUCKLES ] Questions about the Encyclopedia by amateurs. New edition, carefully reviewed, corrected and expanded. Sans lieu ni éditeur [Neuchâtel, Société typographique], 1771-1772, 9 vol. 8°, title, 376 p. ; title, 390 p. ; title, 363-1 blank p. ; title-377-1 blank p. ; title-373-1 blank p. ; 351-1 blank p. ; title, 364 p. (inversion of two leaves in the last book); title, 369-[5] p., and title, 378 (begins at 5, like the table) p., uniform brown speckled calf binding, spine with ornate ribbing, title and tomaison parts (qqs rubbing, qqs flattened caps, qqs blunt corners). Copy in good condition of this rare work. Edition published, not in Geneva, as Bengesco thought, but in Neuchâtel by the Société typographique [cf. the letter of the Société typographique de Neuchâtel to Voltaire, 29 April 1771, Best. no. 16128]. The errors indicated in the errata of the first edition have been corrected. The last two parts alone are dated 1772. The distribution of the articles is the same as in the first edition with the "Supplement" and the "Letters from Memmius to Cicero". The "Questions on the Encyclopedia by Amateurs", a work from Voltaire's old age for which he seemed to have "some predilection", remain largely unknown, probably because they were invisible for a long time. Under the general title of "Dictionnaire philosophique", Voltaire's first posthumous edition, that of Kehl, had grouped together in alphabetical order all his articles with the same title, whatever their origin. This lesson, until recently, has been followed by all publishers. The first critical edition of "Questions", published in seven volumes from 2007 to 2013, reproduces the last version published by Voltaire. After agreeing, in September 1769, to participate in a supplement to the "Encyclopedia" that a press magnate, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, wanted to launch, Voltaire withdrew from the project and on November 12, 1769, his niece, Mrs. Denis, wrote to a friend that he was "working fifte
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