Voltaire. Candide / Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. — New York: Illustrated Editions Company, [c. 1930].

Title (chain border): CANDIDE | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS BY | MAHLON BLAINE | {vignette} | NEW YORK | Illustrated Editions Company | 220 FOURTH AVENUE ||

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:[1-7] 8-144, headpiece, frontispiece and 5 plates after Blaine’s pen drawings, within the pagination; tailpieces by A. Zaidenberg.

Binding: 21 x 14 cm; quarter beige buckram over blue cloth, stamped-gilt and red lettering and vignette to front board and spine. Binding in a way similar to Sterne’s A sentimental journey published by Three Sirens Press in c. 1930 [LIB-2784.2021]. Not only that: tailpieces in this Illustrated Editions Company edition are the same as in Cameo Classic edition, with the only difference – here the name of the artist is stated, whether in the Cameo Classic it is not; see [LIB-2777.2021]. Bear in mind that Cameo Classic does not belong to Williams, Belasco and Meyers, it is a Grosset and Dunlap series; a cream dust-jacket lettered in red and blue, and with a citation from W. Somerset Maugham; all edges red. Compare with LIB-2791.2021. Illustrations in the current copy are exactly the same.

Compare Williams, Belasco and Meyers Candide and Illustrated Editions Company Candide title pages:

 

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.

Zaidenberg, Arthur (American, 1902 – 1990) – illustrator.

Williams, Belasco and Meyers (NY) – copyright holder.

Illustrated Editions Company (1929-1942) – publisher.

J. J. Little & Ives Company (NY) – printer.

See the Cameo Classic reprint [LIB-2777.2021].