[VOLTAIRE]. Vie de Molière, avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrag - Lot 74

[VOLTAIRE]. Vie de Molière, avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrages. Paris, Prault Fils, 1739. In-12, brown calf, coat of arms on boards, spine with 5 ornate nerves (Period binding). Bengesco, II-1578 / Guigard, II-421 / Olivier, pl. 1147 /// (2f.)-120-(2f.). First edition of this text, which Voltaire wrote at the request of M. de Chauvelin to be placed at the head of the in-4 edition published by Prault with figures by Boucher. The censor of the bookshop would not approve the text, and the edition appeared with a biography by an obscure writer named La Serre. This copy was later embossed with the coat of arms of Vincent-Étienne-Nicolas Roujault, President of the Parlement de Paris. From the A. Perreau library. Perreau library with his bookplate. Old restorations.