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Candide / Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; illustrated by Rockwell Kent.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ2082.C2 E5 1928
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, 1694-1778.
- Standardized Title:
- Candide. English. 1928.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potts, Martha (autograph) (cop.1)
- Kent, Rockwell (autograph) (cop.1-2)
- Hancock, Eleanor Stone (donor) (cop.1)
- Zigrosser, Carl, 1891- (donor) (bookplate) (inscription) (cop.2)
- Physical Description:
- 111 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [N.Y.] : Random House, 1928.
- Notes:
- Translation by Richard Aldington, first published in London, 1927.
- "Of this first book with imprint Random House 1470 numbered copies are printed on all rag French paper and 95 coloured in the studio of the artist .... The compositon and press work completed by the Pynson Printers in the month of April MCMXXVIII New York."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Signed by Rockwell Kent below the colophon.
- Copy 1 is no. 1079, cop. 2 no. 501 ; uncoloured. Bound in tan cloth, with title and illustration stamped on spine and upper board in gilded relief.
- OCLC:
- 338868
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