Essay sur l'histoire générale, et sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations : depuis Charlemagne jusqu'a nos jours

Name of publisher does not appear on title pages; taken from "Avis des editeurs" (tome premier, preliminary pages 5-6)

Volumes 1-4 are a revised and expanded edition of Essai sur l'histoire universelle; subsequently revised under title: Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations. Volumes 5-7 previously published separately under title Le siècle de Louis XIV

Tome premier: [6], 399, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates; tome second: [4], 380, [2] pages; tome troisieme: [4], 391, [3] pages; tome quatrieme: [4], 328, [2] pages; tome cinquieme: [4], 335, [1] pages; tome sixieme: [4], 308 pages; tome septieme: [4], 320 pages

Signatures: Tome premier: pi² *1 A-2B⁸ chi1; tome second: pi² A-O⁸ P⁸( -P8) Q-2A⁸ ; tome troisieme: pi² A-2A⁸ 2B⁴ chi1; tome quatrieme: pi² A-V⁸ X⁴ chi1; tome cinquieme: pi² A-X⁸; tome sixieme: pi² A-T⁸ V²; tome septieme: pi² A-V⁸. Last page of v. 1-3 and 5 blank

Cancels: tome premier: leaves B7,8, D2, N4, T7, V1, X3,6, Y8; tome second: leaves B7, K3, P1, X3; tome troisieme: A3, H4, K1,3; tome quatrieme: F1, K3·4, L1, N2, Q6, R4, V8, X1; tome cinquieme: S3; tome sixieme: E2; tome septieme: T8

Title pages printed in red and black

Illustrations: Full-page engraved portrait of Voltaire in v. 1, signed: J.M. Loitard [that is, Liotard] del., J. Balechou sculp

Woodcut title page ornaments; woodcut and type flower head- and tailpieces; factotums

Errata: v. 1, page [401]; v. 2, page [381]; v. 3, page [393]; v. 4, pages [329-330]; v. 6, page 308