Williams, Belasco and Meyers
Illustrated Editions Company
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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:[1-10] 11-144, 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. 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]. -
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:Williams, Belasco and Meyers
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].Illustrated Editions Company
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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. -
Three volumes, 8vo, 20.5 x 13.5 cm each, uniformly bound in crimson morocco, ruled in triple-fillet gilt, flat spine, triple-fillet gilt-ruled compartments with gilt elements in compartments, two black labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, multiple woodcut tailpieces. Armorial bookplate of Henricus Liber Baro de Gudenus to front pastedowns in all volumes: “HENRICVS LIBER BARO | DE GVDENVS | 1891 | Jauner”. Title-page: ROMANS | ET | CONTES | DE | M. DE VOLTAIRE | {chain rule} | TOME PREMIER (SECOND; TROISIEME). | {chain rule} | {publisher’s device with motto: “nuper sub modio nunc super”} | A BOUILLON, | AUX DEPENS DE LA SOCIETE TYPOGRAPHIQUE. | {floral rule} | M. DCC. LXXVIII. || Vol. 1: Collation: π2 (h.t., t.p.) a1 (table), A-T8, (Aiv unsigned), total 155 leaves plus 16 leaves of plates, incl. frontispiece, and two blanks – first and last, extraneous to collation. Frontispiece by Cathelin after de La Tour, unsigned t.p. vignette (device), 5 unsigned headpieces, and 15 plates after Monnet by Chatelin, Dambrun (5) Deny (6), Thiébault (2), and Vidal. Pagination: [i-v] vi [1-3] 4-304, total 310 pages, ils. Vol. 2: Collation: π2 (h.t., t.p.) a2 (table), A-V8, total 164 leaves plus 20 leaves of plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation, no blanks. Frontispiece by Dambrun after Monnet, unsigned t.p. vignette (device), 3 headpieces by Deny after Monnet, 2 unsigned headpieces, 19 plates: after Martiny by Deny; after Monnet by Baquoy, Dambrun (3), Deny (9), and Vidal (4); and after Moreau by Deny. Pagination: [i-v] vi-viii [1-3] 4-320, total 328 pages, ils. Vol.3: π2 (h.t., t.p.) a1 (table), A-O8 P6 a-f8 g1 h2 ('avis au relieur'), total 172 leaves plus 21 leaves of plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation, no blanks. Frontispiece by Dambrun after Monnet, unsigned t.p. vignette (device), indistinctly signed headpiece to “Jenni” after Monnet (probably Thiébault), 2 unsigned headpieces, 20 plates: after Marillier by Deny (4), Lorieux (2), Patas, and Vidal. Pagination: [i-v] vi [1-3] 4-236, [1-2] 3-102, total 328 pages, ils. Provenance: Heinrich von Gudenus [Heinrich Johann Baptist Ghislain von Gudenus] (Austrian, 1839 – 1915); ref.: Bibliotheca Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Strigoniensis. Catalogue raisonné: Ray (French): № 35, pp. 71-2; Cohen - de Ricci: 1038-9; Lewine: 562-3. Contributors: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (French, 1694 – 1778) – author. Artists: Clément Pierre Marillier (French, 1740 – 1808) Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704 – 1788) Charles Monnet [Monet] (French, 1732 – 1819) Pietro Antonio Martini (Italian, 1738 – 1797) Jean-Michel Moreau [Moreau le Jeune] (French, 1741 – 1814) Engravers: Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721–1777) Louis-Jacques Cathelin (French, 1738 – 1804) John Baptist Chatelain (British, 1710 – 1758) Jean Dambrun (French, 1741 – 1808/14) Jeanne Deny (French, 1749 – c. 1815) Martial Deny (French, b. 1745) F. B. Lorieux (French, fl. 1786 – 1810) Charles Emmanuel Patas (French, 1744 – 1802) Elisabeth Thiébault (French, 18th century) Gérard Vidal (French, 1742 – 1801) -
Title: AN ESSAY | Towards a | REAL CHARACTER, | And a | PHILOSOPHICAL | LANGUAGE. | By John Wilkins D.D. Dean of Ripon, | And Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY. |—| [armorial device] |—| LONDON, | Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for | JOHN MARTYN Printer to the ROYAL | SOCIETY, 1668. Pagination: [2] blank/order, [2] t.p./blank, [16], 1-454; + 79 leaves of Dictionary, unpaginated (158 pages); Illustrations: folding plates before pp. 167, 187, and two folding plates before p. 443. Collation: π2 a-d2 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Lll4 Mmm3 aaa4 Aaa-Sss4 ttt3 Size: 4to, 32 x 20 x 5 cm; Binding: Full speckled calf, later polished calf spine with raised bands, double fillet ruled gilt compartments, crimson label with gilt lettering, margins sprinkled red. The work of John Wilkins is dedicated to the problem of the universal language. Wilkins was the Dean of Ripon from 1663 to 1672 and one of the founders of the Royal Society. -
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) -
Title: AN | ESSAY | CONCERNING | HUMANE UNDERSTANDING, |—| In Four BOOKS. |—| Written by JOHN LOCKE, Gent. |—| The Third EDITION. |—| Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nes- | cias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi | displicere! Cic. De Natur. Deor. l. I. |—| LONDON: | Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black | Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, and Samuel Manship, at the | Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1695. Collation: [π2]-b6, a-c4, B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Fff4 Ggg-Iii2 Pagination: [40] 1-407 [13]. Catalogue raisoné: The works of John Locke; a comprehensive bibliography from the seventeenth century to the present. Compiled by John C. Attig. Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Philosophy, Number 1. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT & London, England, 1985. p. 42, №230 provides for pagination [40] 407, [13]p. Page by page reprint of 1694 edition. Regarding the epigraph on t.p.: The correct citation from , De Natura Deorum: "Quam bellum erat, Vellei, confiteri potius nescire, quod nescires, quam ista effutientem nauseare atque ipsum sibi displicere." [How delightful it would be, Velleius, if when you did not know a thing you would admit your ignorance, instead of uttering this drivel, which must make even your own gorge rise with disgust!] This life-time edition was presented as a gift to Dr Elisha Atkins (1949 – 2019), professor at Yale University School of Medicine, on July 1st, 1967, by his students, namely Carolyn Wells [Bush] (1923 – 2013), John Mooney (now a psychiatrist in Boston), and Charles Dinarello. Size: 32 x 23 cm Binding: Fill modern morocco, panelled and ruled gilt, raised bands, gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering; in a slipcase. -
Description: One volume, 27 x 21.5 cm, collated 4to, bound in full dark crimson calf with gilt floral border, raised bands with gilt filets, gilt lettering to spine, 16 colour plates, one of them loose, and numerous woodcut tailpieces. Title-page: (black and blue): VOLTAIRE | L'INGÉNU | {VIGNETTE} | ILLUSTRATIONS DE BERTHOMMÉ SAINT-ANDRÉ | ÉDITIONS DE LA BONNE ÉTOILE | PARIS || Collation: 4to; π4 (2 blanks, h.t./limitation, t.p.), 1-184, last blank; total 76 leaves plus 16 colour plates after Louis Berthommé Saint-André and two flyleaves, first and last. Pagination: [4 blanks] [1-4] 5-143 [144] [4 blanks]; total 152 pages, ils. Limitation: Edition limited to 2,500 copies, of which this is copy № 1621. Colophon: Printed under direction of Paul Cotinaud at L’Union Typographique by Henri Leduc; photogravures executed by G. Duval and coloured by E. Vairel fils. Contributors: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (French, 1694 – 1778) – author. Louis Berthomme Saint-André (French, 1905 – 1977) – artist. -
NEWHardcover volume, 17 x 14 cm; bound in red buckram with gilt lettering in geometrical frame, black label with gilt lettering and fillets to flat spine. Print run 150,000 copies. Collation: 18 2-1316, i.e. 200 leaves plus 8 plates incl. frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. [2] 3-397 [3]. Title-page (red and black): МОНТЕСКЬЁ | ПЕРСИДСКИЕ | ПИСЬМА | {fleuron} | — | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА • 1956 || Title verso: MONTESQUIEU | LETTRES PERSIANES | 1721 | Перевод с французского | под редакцией | Е. А. ГУНСТА | Вступительная статья | С. Д. АРТАМОНОВА || Contributors: Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de (French, 1689–1755) – author Артамонов, Сергей Дмитриевич (Russian, 1915 – 1989) – author preface Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) – translator -
Softcover, 26 x 16.5 cm, publisher’s grey wrappers lettered in black, unbound, in a green double slipcase; collated in-4to, 24 leaves folded in four, pp.: [8] [1] 2-174 [10], total 192 pages, ils. Title-page: CANDIDE, | OU L’OPTIMISME, | TRADUIT DE L’ALLEMAND | DE | Mr. le Docteur RALPH. | {fleuron} | — | MDCCCCXXXI || Collation: π4 1-214 222 22*4 χ2, total 96 leaves, all on laid paper but χ (Avis au relieur) on Arches wove paper (watermarked) plus frontispiece and 12 engraved plates after Jean Roy. Limited edition of 300 copies — 5 on Chine, 10 on Japon, and the rest (275) on Arches, not for sale; of which this is copy № 3, numbered and signed by the artist ‘au crayon rouge’. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 1137. Contributors: François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778) – author. Jean Roy – artist; attributed by most to Marcel North (British-Swiss, 1909 – 1990), and by J.P. Dutel to Edy Legrand (French, 1892 – 1970). -
The Objectivist Newsletter, vol. 1 – 1962 (12 issues), vol. 2 – 1963 (12 issues), vol. 3 – 1964 (12 issues), vol. 4 – 1965 (12 issues) / 48 issues total (complete run). — New York: The Objectivist, Inc., 1962–1965. In green buckram publisher’s springback binder with stamped THE | OBJECTIVIST | NEWSLETTER to front board in the lower right corner, with remnants of gilt. Loose inserts: two order form pamphlets with a table of contents. Pagination: 8 pages table of contents, 56 + 50 + 52 + 62, total 228 pages (114 leaves). Size: Binder 29 x 24 cm, leaves 28 x 22 cm. Contributors: Rand, Ayn [O'Connor, Alice; Розенбаум, Алиса Зиновьевна] (Russian-American, 1905 – 1982) – editor, author. Branden [Blumenthal], Nathaniel (Canadian–American 1930 – 2014) – editor, author. -
Paperback, 21.2 x 13.6 cm, dark blue pictorial covers with white lettering, pp.: [2] 3-316 [4]. Title-page: Рав. Й.-Д. Соловейчик | И СТАНЕТЕ ИСКАТЬ | ОТТУДА… | Перевод Мириам Китросской | Памяти | Миши Шнейдера и Лены Гальпериной | {publisher’s device} | Иерусалим 5782 (2022) || Contributors: Иосеф Дов-Бер ха-Леви Соловейчик [יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק, Joseph Dov-Ber Soloveitchik) (Jewish-American, 1903 – 1993) Мириам Китросская [Miriam Kitrossky] (Israeli, b. 1957) -
Title (historiated border, three-compartment): CAMEO CLASSICS | {rule} | CANDIDE | BY | Voltaire | WITH ILLUSTRATIONS | BY | Mahlon Blaine | {rule} | GROSSET AND DUNLAP | NEW YORK || Pagination: [1-6] 7-144, total 144 pages; frontispiece plus 4 plates within collation, head- and tailpieces – reproductions of Mahlon Blaine’s pen drawings. Binding: 21 x 14 cm, cream cloth with the cameo of Johann Gutenberg to front cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, in acetate dust jacket, in a pictorial slipcase. 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. Grosset and Dunlap (NY) – publisher. J. J. Little & Ives Company (NY) – printer. Cameo Classics series was published by Grosset & Dunlap (New York) in 1935 – 1948 as a cheap reprint of illustrated classic editions, in this case – of Williams, Belasco and Meyers publication of Candide in 1930 (see LIB-2792.2021). The Cameo Classics books had a clear, acetate dust jacket and were boxed in a buckram alligator skin patterned slipcase with an illustrated cover. The price per volume started at 69 cents and was gradually lowered to 59 and 50 cents per volume by the late 1930s. Candide was translated into English quite a few times, starting from Tobias George Smollett (British-Scottish, 1721 – 1771) and up to today's translators. For some reason, the translator's name is almost never indicated. This translation, published by Williams, Belasco and Meyers in 1930 and reprinted by Grosset and Dunlap in c. 1935, was performed by Herman Irwell Woolf under the pseudonym of Dorset Chambers and first published in London by F.B. Neumayer in 1919. This edition was mentioned in the letter from Joseph Conrad to his son Borys in 1922, May 10. -
Paperback, 25 x 17 cm, publisher’s wrappers with red and black lettering in a pictorial frame by Vysheslavstev; pp.: [i-vii] viii-xv [xvi blank], [1-5] 6-348 [4]; collated 8vo: π8 1-228, total 184 leaves, 368 pages; gatherings 1-22 uncut. Because the author was banned, lettering on the spine was covered by a glued strip of blank paper; only the year 1922 was left visible. Front wrapper: ОЧЕРК | РАЗВИТИЯ | РУССКОЙ | ФИЛОСОФИИ | ГУСТАВА | ШПЕТА | ПЕРВАЯ | ЧАСТЬ | 1922 | ПЕТЕРБУРГ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО “КОЛОС” || Title-page: similar lettering in black only with no frame. Design of the front wrapper and the publisher’s device (π1) by Николай Николаевич Вышеславцев [N. Vysheslavstev] (Russian, 1890 – 1952). Title: Sketch on the development of Russian philosophy, Part one. [Part two was never published]. Author: Густав Густавович Шпет [Gustav Shpet] (Russian, 1879 – 1937) – executed by fire squad on 16 November 1937. -
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. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique. -
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].
