Author talk:Voltaire

There is a bibliography of English translations, published in 1959, available as a (hard-to-read) PDF here: https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Translations_English_Evans_SVEC8.pdf . Extracting material from it to try and locate scans of might be worthwhile. JesseW (talk) 05:47, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Found one: Internet Archive identifier: zadigothertales00volt - Zadig, and other tales, 1746-1767. A new translation by Robert Bruce Boswell (1910); and a version from 1907: Internet Archive identifier: zadigandotherta00voltgoog; and a copy (also from 1907) from a library in India: Internet Archive identifier: dli.bengal.10689.15118 (with a second copy of what seems to be the same scan: Internet Archive identifier: in.ernet.dli.2015.96099)

Cataloging IA's Voltaire stuff

As I look thru the (many) items associated with Voltaire on the Internet Archive, I'll list (and describe) them below. JesseW (talk) 22:11, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

And I've now finished that list! JesseW (talk) 00:10, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

I'm working from this list of (currently) 110 items.

(PG = Project Gutenberg) (bold = worth including in WikiSource) For volumes of The Works of Voltaire, see that talk page.

• https://archive.org/details/gut19942.sbooks -- Copy of PG's Candide
  • https://archive.org/details/candide19942gut -- another copy
• https://archive.org/download/gut18569.sbooks -- Copy of PG's Philosophical Dictionary
• https://archive.org/details/semiramistragedy00ayscuoft -- English adaption by George Edward Ayscough of Voltaire's play Semiramis
• https://archive.org/details/matildatragedyas00franiala -- English adaption by Thomas Francklin of Voltaire's play Matilda
• https://archive.org/details/zairedramaticpoe00volt -- Zaire, translated/adapted by Albany Wallace
• https://archive.org/details/essayoncrimespun1775becc -- 1775 Translation of Voltaire's commentary on Beccaria's On Crimes & Punishments
  • https://archive.org/details/essayoncrimespun00becc -- Cleaner copy of 1775 printing
  • https://archive.org/details/essayoncrimespun00becc_0 -- 1785 printing
  • https://archive.org/details/essayoncrimespun1819becc -- 1819 Translation, missing cover page
• https://archive.org/details/frenchandenglish00unknuoft -- The Harvard Classics Volume 34, containing Voltaire's Letters on the English
• https://archive.org/details/unpublishedcorre01dude -- The first volume of a two volume set, whose second volume contains some of Voltaire's letters; this volume isn't relevant.
• https://archive.org/details/confessionsfred00fredgoog -- A translation of a work (Les matinées du roi de Prusse) that was attributed to Voltaire and various others.
• https://archive.org/details/essayontaste00geraiala -- Contains a 1759 translation of Voltaire's "Essay on Taste" along with other essays by others
• https://archive.org/details/superstitioninal01holb -- 1878 publication of letters and a biography of Jean Meslier, by Voltaire, translated by Anna Knoop, along with Meslier's work
  • https://archive.org/details/superstitioninal00holb -- 1910 edition, with a distinctive title page
  • https://archive.org/details/superstitionalla00holb -- 1920 edition, with an additional preface
  • https://archive.org/details/superstitionina00voltgoog -- another copy of the 1920 edition
• https://archive.org/details/thelifeofdavid00humeuoft -- English translation of so-called "Memoirs of Voltaire", not published until after this death; along with other works
• https://archive.org/details/classictalesseri02huntiala/page/324 -- 1807 translation of 8 of Voltaire's romances, unclear who the translator was
  • https://archive.org/details/classictalesseri11hunt -- the first volume of the above, doesn't actually contain any Voltaire
• https://archive.org/details/voltairerousseau00volt -- an 1875 selection of quotations from Voltaire about God, by J. Akerly; could be interesting as variant translations
• https://archive.org/details/romancesnovelsta01voltuoft -- 1806 translation (translator not listed) of various of Voltaire's "Romances, Novels and Tales"; could be interesting as variant translations
  • https://archive.org/details/romancesnovelsan02voltuoft -- 2nd volume
• Philosophical Dictionary:
  • https://archive.org/details/cu31924092278310 -- 1901 translation of the Philosophical Dictionary by William F. Fleming, Volume 8
  • https://archive.org/details/voltairesphiloso00volt -- 1900 translation of the Philosophical Dictionary, unknown translator
  • https://archive.org/details/philosophicaldic00voltrich - 1802 translation, no translator listed; apparently contains "refutation of such passages as are any way exceptionable in regards to religion"
    • https://archive.org/details/philosophicaldi02voltgoog -- another copy
  • https://archive.org/details/philosophicaldi00unkngoog -- 1765 edition, also mentions the "refutation of such passages"
  • https://archive.org/details/pockettheology00volt -- appears to be (unidentified) translations of selected entries from the Philosophical Dictionary, titled "Pocket Theology", published 1912
  • https://archive.org/details/aphilosophicald07voltgoog -- -- 1824 translation, Volume 3
  • https://archive.org/details/aphilosophicald00unkngoog -- 1824 translation, Volume 5
  • https://archive.org/details/aphilosophicald08voltgoog -- 1824 translation, Volume 6
• https://archive.org/details/philosophicaldi03voltgoog -- 1819 translation, Volume 1 (of 2)
• https://archive.org/details/theageoflouisxvb01voltuoft - 1774 translation of "The age of Louis XV"

https://archive.org/details/agelouisxivtowh00grifgoog -- 1779 translation of "The age of Louis XIV"

• https://archive.org/details/historyofcharles1880volt -- History of Charles XII of Sweden, translation date and author unclear
  • https://archive.org/details/historyofcharles00volt_0 -- 1836 edition, translator not stated
  • https://archive.org/details/historyofcharles01volt -- 1833 edition
• https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryst02voltuoft - 1758 edition of "The general history and state of Europe", Volume 2, supposedly by Voltaire; translation status unclear
• https://archive.org/details/annalsofempirefr02voltiala - Annals of the Empire, from the reign of Charlemagne, Volume 2, published in 1755
  • https://archive.org/details/annalsoftheempir00voltuoft -- another copy of Volume 2
• https://archive.org/details/voltairesprose00volt_0 -- Only the introductory matter is in English, the rest is the French originals
• https://archive.org/details/zadigotherstorie00voltuoft -- Another with just the introductory material in English (there are 3 other copies of this on IA, too)
• https://archive.org/details/zadigothertales00volt - 1910 translation by Robert Bruce Boswell of Zadig and various other stories ; could be interesting as variant translations
  • https://archive.org/details/zadigandotherta00voltgoog -- another copy
• https://archive.org/details/candideotherroma00voltuoft - translation by Richard Aldington of Candide and other works; unclear publication date, so may be difficult to confirm as acceptable for Wikisource
• https://archive.org/details/candideorallfort00voltuoft -- 1898 translation of Candide (only)
• https://archive.org/details/candide00volt_1 -- 1920 edition of Smollett's translation of Candide, with illustrations by Paul Klee
• https://archive.org/details/miscellanies00volt -- 1778 translation by Smollett (who wrote the notes for the Fleming translation) of Zadig and two other stories; could be interesting as variant translations
• https://archive.org/details/toleration28volt -- Voltaire's On Toleration, unidentified translation (published 1923, part of Little Blue Book series)
• https://archive.org/details/ignorantphilosop200volt -- Voltaire's The Ignorant Philosopher (published 1922, part of Little Blue Book series)
• https://archive.org/details/tendialoguesonre174volt - Ten dialogues on religion and philosophy (published 1925, part of Little Blue Book series)
• https://archive.org/details/seventhcantoofhe00volt -- 1823 translation of part of the Henriade, and various other "minor" pieces
• https://archive.org/details/henriadapoem00jonegoog -- 1834 translation by Charles L. S Jones of the Henriade
• https://archive.org/details/lettersconcernin00voltiala -- 1759 edition of Letters Concerning the English Nation
• https://archive.org/details/lettersconcernin00voltuoft -- 1733 edition of Letters Concerning the English Nation
• https://archive.org/details/importantexamina00volt -- The important examination of the Holy Scriptures, 1819 translation (claimed to be the first into English)
  • https://archive.org/details/pts_theimportantexamination_1758_10 -- another (worse) scan of the same work
• https://archive.org/details/pts_lordchesterfieldears_1758_17 -- a nearly un-readably bad scan of 1826 translation of "Lord Chesterfield's Ears"
• https://archive.org/details/romancestalessma00vol -- 1794 translation of various romances and tales, including Candide, The Huron, and Azolan
• https://archive.org/details/philosophyofhist00volt -- "The philosophy of history" translated by Henry Wood Gandell in 1829
• https://archive.org/details/meropeatragedy00voltuoft -- 1776 set of plays including "Merope" adapted/translated by Aaron Hill
• https://archive.org/details/meropetragedyact00volt -- 1749 edition of Merope adapted by Aaron Hill
• https://archive.org/details/lapucellemaidor00dowsgoog -- The Maid of Oreleans, translated by Ernest Dowson, Volume 1
  • https://archive.org/details/lapucellemaidofo01voltiala -- Volume 1, nicer scan
  • https://archive.org/details/lapucellemaidor00ladgoog -- The Maid of Oreleans, translated by Ernest Dowson, Volume 2
• https://archive.org/details/tolerationothere00volt -- Toleration and other essays, translated by Joseph McCabe -- already on Wikisource
  • https://archive.org/details/tolerationother00volt -- another copy of the same edition
• https://archive.org/details/criticalessayso00voltgoog -- 1761 translation of various "Critical essays on dramatic poetry"
• https://archive.org/details/historyofpetergr00volt -- 1857 edition of The History of Peter the Great, translated by Smollett
• https://archive.org/details/voltaireinhislet00voltrich -- Voltaire in his letters, translated by Tallentyre
  • https://archive.org/details/voltaireinhislet00voltuoft -- another copy
• https://archive.org/details/voltaireshistory00voltuoft -- 1912 printing of Voltaire's history of Charles XII, king of Sweden, translated by Todhunter
• https://archive.org/details/voltairesessayon00voltuoft -- 1915 PhD thesis on Voltaire's Essay on Epic Poetry (including a translation of it) by Florence Donnell White
  • https://archive.org/details/voltairesessayo00whitgoog -- another, worse, Google copy
• https://archive.org/details/henriadewithbatt00voltrich -- 1859 edition of "Selected Works of Voltaire", Volume 2, translated by Wight
• https://archive.org/details/margravineofbair00wilhiala -- Letters from Voltaire to the Margravine of Baireuth
  • https://archive.org/details/margravineofbair00wilh -- another copy
  • https://archive.org/details/margravinebaire00voltgoog -- another copy