1926 · Paris
by Voltaire, [F.M. Arouet de]
Paris: René Kieffer, 1926. Small quarto. Handsome color lithographed pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. About fine in nicked glassine wrapper. First edition in this format. Illustrated with over thirty vignettes and decorations by Braun, colored via pochoir. From an edition of 550 numbered copies, this is one of five hundred copies on vélin blanc. Monod asserts that despite the colophon, publication actually took place in 1930. MONOD 11440. (Inventory #: WRCLIT59286)