Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire.

VOLTAIRE [AROUET, François-Marie].

Item Number: 118071

Volume 22 of L’imprimerie De La Societe Litteraire Typographique’s complete works of Voltaire. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, black morocco spine labels letterd in gilt, gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece portrait of Luois XV. In very good condition. Desirable in a contemporary binding.

One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment, François-Marie Arouet, know by the nom de plum Voltaire, was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays, poems, novels, theoretical essays, and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties, he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France, often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment.