Voltaire. Candide ou l’optimisme / Illustrations de Brunelleschi. — Paris: Gibert Jeune, Librairie d’Amateurs, 1933.
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Title (in red and black): CANDIDE | OU L’OPTIMISME | PAR | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D’AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS ||
Pagination : [6] 1-163 [164][2], with 23 black tailpieces, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece, printed by A. Dantan and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier after gouache and watercolour drawings by Umberto Brunelleschi; total 102 leaves.
Limited edition of 2500 copies, this is № 39.
Printed at Imprimerie Coulouma, Argenteuil (H. Barthélemy, director) on July 15, 1933.
Binding: 26.5 x 20.5 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper.
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| Subject | 18th century, Candide, Fiction, France, French literature, Novel, Optimism, Philosophy, Prose, Satire, Voltaire, Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (French, 1694 – 1778), Voyages and Travels |
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| Printer | Coulouma, Robert (French, 1887 – 1976), Imprimerie Coulouma (Argenteuil) |
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