Voltaire. Candide or all for the best / Illustrated by Clara Tice. — NY: The Bennett Libraries, 1927.
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Title (in red and black): PART I | CANDIDE | OR | ALL FOR THE BEST | ★ | TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF | M. DE VOLTAIRE | ★ | WITH 10 ETCHINGS BY | CLARA TICE | ★ | EXACT REPRINT OF THE EARLIEST ENGLISH TEXT | PRINTED IN HOLLAND BY | JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN | FOUNDED IN HAARLEM ANNO MDCCIII | FOR | THE BENNETT LIBRARIES INC. | NEW YORK | MDCCCCXXVII ||
Limitation: 1,000 copies of which numbers 1 t0 250 are on a special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper; and numbers 251 to 1,000 are on papier à la cuve; this is copy № 310 (stamped in pink ink).
Illustrations: 10 coloured etchings, incl. frontispiece, produced by an American artist Clara Tice (1888 – 1973) on a watermarked laid paper and bound in with tissue guards, lettered in red.
Binding: 23.5 x 15.3 cm, quarter black buckram over wrinkled faux-marbled paper painted with gilt, gilt design and lettering to spine, black endpapers (both flyleaves present), top margin gilt, other trimmed rough.
Collation: [10] – five blank leaves, [2] – h.t. / limitation, [2] – t.p. / imprint, 7-119 [120 blank], [121-2] – part 2 d.t.p. / blank, 123-182, [183-9] – contents, [190 blank], [10] – five blank leaves, the first blank uncut from [189/90]; total number of pages 216; total number of leaves 108 plus 10 plates with tissue guards, incl. frontispiece.
Contributors:
François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778)– author.
Tobias George Smollett (British, 1721 – 1771) – translator (translation of 1759).
Clara Tice (American, 1888 – 1973) – artist.
The Bennett Libraries (NY) – publisher.
Johannes Enschedé en Zonen (Haarlem) – printer.
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| Subject | 18th century, Candide, Etching, Fiction, France, French literature, Illustrated books, Novel, Optimism, Philosophy, Prose, Satire, Voltaire, Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (French, 1694 – 1778), Voyages and Travels |
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