CANDIDE, OU L'OPTIMISME [Two Parts in One]

Hardcover

1761 · Geneve

by Voltaire
Geneve: [n.p.], 1761. Pirated Edition. Hardcover. 12mo., 234, [4], 133, [3]. In Very Good condition. Bound in full contemporary acid-washed calf. Spine paneled with gilt tooling. Some light wear, primarily to the hinges, corners, and head and tail of spine. Edges of text block dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Light age-toning to interior. Part One with a woodcut title vignette of Hermes and Part Two with a deer. Scarce. Shelved case 3. Apparently unrecorded piracy. Not in Bengesco. Printing and the Mind of Man 204.




Published surreptitiously in 1759, that year featured at least seventeen different printings and editions. The second (truncated)
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