Pierre-Augustin Caron de BEAUMARCHAIS (1732-1799). P.S., [ca. 1784]; 1page oblong in-12 partly printed. Rare receipt for the subscription to Œuvres complettes de M. de Voltaire (the so-called Kehl edition, 1784-1789), partly printed, signed "Caron de Beaumarchais" on behalf of "la Société Littéraire Typographique". This receipt, bearing no. 1833, made out to Mr. La Chenez-Heude in Rouen, for a copy of Voltaire's Œuvres complètes, printed in an edition of 4,000 numbered copies, printed "with Baskerville type, on paper known as grand Missel fin", is for a deposit of 72 livres, to be applied against the 360 livres, price of the 60 volumes in sheets. This numbered bulletin will serve as a "title to the sharing of chances, in the free distribution of 200,000 livres tournois"...