Candide : or, The optimist / by J.F.M.A. de Voltaire ; illustrated by Fritz Kredel for The Peter Pauper Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.

Contributor:

Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Candide. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Voltaire, 1694-1778. Candide--English.

Voltaire.

Candide (Voltaire).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Gerry, Vance (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

McReiser(?), C. J. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

156 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Optimist

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, New York : The Peter Pauper Press, [1944]

Notes:

"This edition of Candide has been set in the Baskerville types (of which the originals were used for the first great collection edition of Voltaire's works) and is printed on specially-made Peter Pauper Press paper." -- Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has bookplate reading: From the Library of Vance Gerry The Weather Bird Press.

OCLC:

476984707