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La pucelle d'Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants avec des notes.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1762 Voltaire
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, 1694-1778.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431--Poetry.
- Joan.
- Illustrated books--Switzerland--18th century--Specimens.
- Illustrated books.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 358 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Nouv. ed., cor., augm & collationnée sur le manuscript de l'auteur.
- Place of Publication:
- [Geneva : Cramer], 1762.
- Notes:
- Half title: La pucelle.
- Title vignette, head and tail pieces.
- "C'est la première édition avouée par l'auteur ... Le chant XX est une version presque entièrement nouvelle du chant XV de 1755, ou XVIII de 1756." -- J. M. Quérard, La France littéraire, 1839, t. 10, p. 304.
- "Préface de don Apuleius Risorius, bénédictin [i. e. Voltaire]"
- The designs for the plates attributed to Gravelot. Cf. BN.
- Place of publication and publisher statement from BN.
- Pages 273-354 misnumbered 277-358.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum lacks plates before "chants" no. 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 19.
- Athenaeum copy: Conservation by the Florence Gould Foundation.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck first presentation bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- Cited in:
- Bengescu, G. Voltaire, 488
- Quérard, X, p. 305
- BN CCXIV-II, column 903.
- Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 64140.
- OCLC:
- 5455354
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