Title (chain border): CANDIDE | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS BY | MAHLON BLAINE | {vignette} | NEW YORK | WILLIAMS, BELASCO | AND MEYERS ||
Title verso: (top) COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY WILLIAMS, BELASCO & MEYERS || (bottom) PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | BY J. J. LITTLE & IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK ||
Pagination:[1-6] 7-144, headpiece, frontispiece and 5 plates after Blaine’s pen drawings, within the pagination.
Binding: 25 x 16.5 cm; blue cloth, blind-stamped frame, stamped-gilt lettering to front board and spine, thick wove paper, upper edge blue, fore-edge untrimmed, yellow vergé endpapers.
Arouet, François-Marie [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778)– author.
Woolf, Herman Irwell [Chambers, Dorset] (British, 1890 – 1958) – translator.
Blaine, Mahlon [Hudson, G. Christopher] (American, 1894 – 1969) – illustrator.
Williams, Belasco and Meyers (NY) – publisher.
J. J. Little & Ives Company (NY) – printer.
See the Cameo Classic reprint [LIB-2777.2021].
