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Grasset, Gabriel, 1725-1782


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    • found: Voltaire. Les Guebres, ou, La tolérance, 1769:title page (A Geneve : Chez Grasset, libraire)
    • found: Voltaire. 1768. II, 1999 (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 66):page 479 (the first edition of Les Guèbres was printed and published at Geneva by Gabriel Grasset, without name of printer or publisher on title page; the dedicatory epistle is signed "Gabriel Grasset et associés") page 482 (the edition of Les Guèbres with imprint "A Geneve : Chez Grasset, libraire" is a provincial French edition of uncertain provenance)
    • found: Voltaire. Dieu et les hommes, 1769:title page (A Berlin : Chez Christian de Vos )
    • found: Voltaire. 1769. I, 1994 (In Voltaire. Works, 1968, v. 69):page 259 (Dieu et les hommes appeared in the fall of 1769 in an edition that was in all probability printed and published by Gabriel Grasset of Geneva; it appears in Grasset's catalog of 1774) page 260 (first edition of Dieu et les hommes has imprint "A Berlin, Chez Christian de Vos," but was printed and published in Geneva, probably by Gabriel Grasset)
    • found: Voltaire. Dictionnaire philosophique portatif, 1765:title page (A Amsterdam : Chez Varberg)
    • found: Voltaire. Dictionnaire philosophique, 1994 (In Voltaire. Works, 1968, v. 35-36):v. 1, page 242 (note to edition published with imprint "A Amsterdam : Chez Varberg": "Il s'agit de la deuxième édition genevoise, imprimée par Gabriel Grasset")
    • found: Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, June 26, 2015(Grasset, Gabriel (1725-1782); printer-bookseller; brother of François Grasset and like him, a clerk for the brothers Cramer; died February 1782)
    • found: R.I.E.C.H (Répertoire des imprimeurs et éditeurs suisses actifs avant 1800), June 26, 2015 :(Grasset, Gabriel; born Geneva, 1725, died February 1782; printer, bookseller; active 1759?-1782; clerk for brothers Cramer, and director of their press in 1759; on March 16, 1761, he admitted to the authorities that he had established and operated a press without permission, with the excuse that he had been working as printer for the Cramers; in February, 1780, sold his stock to Jaques Quilby and Joseph Boisselier, after having been condemned to prison for printing obscene and irreligious books, but continued to operate as bookseller until his death)
    • found: Brown and Kölving. "Voltaire and Cramer?" in Le siècle de Voltaire, 1987, 149-183:pages 149-150 ("Physical and documentary evidence strongly suggests that ... starting with the Dictionnaire philosophique, published in 1764 ... Gabriel Grasset ... was responsilble for the printing--and no doubt the publication--of a substantial number" of the original editions of Voltaire's major separate works to 1778, the year of Voltaire's death; these editions were previously believed to have been produced by Gabriel Cramer) pages 156-169 (lists 25 editions the authors believe Grasset was responsible for, which were issued with no name of printer/publisher or a false or fictitious name)
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