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Lot 323
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). The Orphan of China. A Tragedy. London: R. Baldwin, 1756.
8vo (187 x 117 mm). Woodcut device on title. (Some internal spotting). 20th-century marbled paper-covered boards, morocco lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: Sold Swann Galleries, 9 June 1988 (sale 1471, lot 310). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. First published in 1753, Voltaire based his play on The Orphan of Zhao, a thirteenth-century Chinese play attributed to Ji Junxiang. ESTC T137612.
[Bound with:] BROWN, John. Barbarossa. A Tragedy. London: for J. and R. Tonson, 1755. Second edition. ESTC T954. -- MONCREIFF, John. Appius: A Tragedy. London: for A. Millar, D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1755. With half-title. FIRST EDITION. ESTC T22333. -- HOME, John. Douglas: A Tragedy. London: for A. Millar, 1757.
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