L'Examen Important de Milord Bolingbroke. Accompagnee des Notes de Mr M..... Editeur de fes Ouvrages

Neuvieme - ninth edition - of this famous polemical work by Voltaire., with a signature purporting to be Voltaire’s on the title page. A good plus copy in contemporary calf boards with gilt filet to edges, titled to spine, slightly knocked to corners. Binding square and firm. Marbled endpapers clean, just cracking over gutters. Annotation in French in pencil to front flyleaf verso and note in a contemporary hand to top of recto reads, ‘ce traite se trouve dans les nouveaux melanges tome 18’, (translates - this treatise is found in the new miscellanies volume 18). Title page lightly toned to fore edge, annotated ‘E Libris Comit du [Prouve] 1784’ to top. The ‘Voltaire’ signature appears above the publisher’s details which although read ‘Londres’ are actually a false imprint commonly used at the time to bypass censorship and avoid legalities. A water stain to the top corner runs throughout pp. 1 -100, does not compromise the text. p.113 a little scuffed to top. Original green book ribbon in good condition. viii. 190 pp. collated and complete.