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.
Additional Information
| Collection | Illustrated books , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Period | 20 AD |
| Media/Technique | Stencil |
| Binding | Original , Softcover , Wrappers |
| Material | Paper |
| 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 |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1933 |
| Acquisition year | 2021 |
