Description: Quarter red buckram over paper boards with fleur-de-lis diaper, 25.9 x 17.2 cm, gilt lettering to spine, in a cardboard slipcase, bookplate to front pastedown “EX LIBRIS | William Farrell Smith ||

Title-page: FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE | Candide | OR | OPTIMISM | — | Translated from the French by Richard Aldington | With an Introduction by Paul Morand | and twenty illustrations in colour | by Sylvain Sauvage | — | LONDON 1939 | The Nonesuch Press ||

Pagination: [i-vi] (h.t., frontis., t.p.) vii-xix [xx] [1-2] 3-147 [148], ils. within colation, total 168 pages.

Colophon: “This edition of Candide has been composed in Monotype Cochin at the Fanfare Press London to the design of Francis Meynell. It was printed by the Imprimerie Prolat Frères at Mâcon in France on paper especially made at the Rives mills, and the illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage were reproduced by G. Duval and the Imprimerie Beaufumé in Paris”.

Illustrations: 10 full-page plates and 10 in-text stencil-coloured collotype reproductions by Georges Duval after drawings by Sylvain Sauvage.

Contributors:

François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778) – author.

Richard Aldington (British, 1892 – 1962) – translator.

Paul Morand (French, 1888 – 1976) – author (introduction).

Sylvain Sauvage [Félix Roy] (French, 1888 – 1948) – artist.

Fanfare Press (London) – printer.

Francis Meynell (British, 1891 – 1975) – book designer.

Imprimerie Protat Frères (Mâcon) – printer.

Imprimerie Beaufumé (Paris) – printer (ils.)

Georges Duval (active mid-20th century) – printer (ils.)

Nonesuch Press – publisher.

Provenance: William Farrell Smith (American, 1932 – 2009)