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[Sauvage, Sylvain Illus.], Voltaire

CANDIDE OR OPTIMISM

Easton Press, 1977

82.50 €

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Year of publication
1977
Place of printing
Norwalk
Author
[Sauvage, Sylvain Illus.], Voltaire
Publishers
Easton Press

Description

First Limited Collector's Easton Press Edition, Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage with full page colour watercolours and black and white throughout the text. The colour frontispiece of Voltaie by Charles Alleberry. 8vo, publisher's original gray morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the spine and covers, silk endpapers, a.e.g. xix, 131 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

Edizione: a pristine example of the limited, illustrated easton edition. translated from the french by richard aldington. with an introduction by paul morand. candide was first published by caron de beaumarchais in 1759. since that time it has been published in over a dozen languages. this collector's edition was published by advance reservation exclusively for subscribers to the easton press collection of "the 100 greatest books ever written". the frontispiece portrait was specially commissioned for this edition.