Letters concerning the English nation
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Type of record: Book
Title: Letters concerning the English nation
Other titles: Lettres philosophiques
Classmark: BC Lt d VOL
Creator(s): Voltaire (1694-1778)
Additional creator(s): Lockman, John (1698-1771) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster-Row
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCXLI [1741]
Language: English
Size and medium: x, 6 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 29 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/438694
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009880759705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Translation, by John Lockman, of Lettres philosophiques. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Published first in English in 1733, and in France a year later under the title "Lettres philosophiques." The hypothesis (BN., Tome 214, II, column 1360), posed by Harcourt Brown, that Voltaire himself wrote part of the text in English following his stay in that country from 1726-28 was challenged by J. Patrick Lee in his essay, "The Unexamined Premise: Voltaire, John Lockman and the myth of the 'English letters'" (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century,2001: 10, pages 240-270)." Lee maintained that the entire "Letters" had in fact been written in French and then translated into English anonymously by John Lockman.
Leaf H2 (p. 147-148) is a cancel.
Page [xvi] and p. [1] at end are blank.
Errata: foot of p. [22] at end.
Advertisements on p. [23]-[29] at end.
Includes index.
Signatures: A⁸ B-M¹² N⁶ O⁴. N3 mis-signed N5.
Errors in pagination: 166-167 as 167-166.
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