////[Voltaire]. La pucelle d’Orléans : poeme, divisé en vingt-un chants, avec les notes de M. de Morza. — A Londres, [1775].

[Voltaire]. La pucelle d’Orléans : poeme, divisé en vingt-un chants, avec les notes de M. de Morza. — A Londres, [1775].

Half title: LA PUCELLE | D’ORLEANS.||

Title: LA PUCELLE | D’ORLEANS , | POEME , | DIVISÉ EN VINGT-UN CHANTS , AVEC | LES NOTES DE M. DE MORZA. | Nouvelle édition, corrigée, augmentée d’un Chant | entier, & de plusieurs morceaux répandus dans | le corps de l’ouvrage, avec les Variantes que | l’on a jointes à la fin de chaque Chant. | [ornament] | A LONDRES. |—| M. DCC. LXXV. ||

Pagination : [4] – two blank unnumbered fly leaves, [i,ii] – h.t. / double-ruled blank leaf, [2] – blank / frontispiece on verso, [iii, iv] – t.p. ruled and bordered / double-ruled blank leaf, [v]vi-viii – table, ix-xv – preface, [xvi] – double-ruled blank leaf, [1]2-447 [448] – double-ruled blank leaf, [2] – two blank unnumbered fly leaves; page 14 misnumbered 18; title within ornamental border; text within double-ruled borders; head- and tail-pieces; 22 leaves of plates (frontis. + one before each chant.)

Collation: 8vo; a8 A-Z8 Aa-Ee8

Binding: 19.9 x 13.2 cm; full contemporary brown calf, blind ruled plates, spine with raised bands, gilt-ruled and tooled in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, all edges red; plate for chant 6, H4, H5 – separated from the block.

De Morza is Voltaire (Cf. Quérard, v. 10, p. 306). Engravings unsigned; attributed to Desrais, Claude-Louis (French, 1746 – 1816). False imprint; possibly printed in Paris.

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