Candide, or, All for the best / translated from the French of M. de Voltaire ; with 10 etchings by Clara Tice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.

Contributor:

Tice, Clara, artist.

Du Laurens, Henri-Joseph, 1719-1797, attributed name.

Bennett Libraries (Firm), active 1927, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Candide. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Voltaire, 1694-1778--Translations into English.

Voltaire.

French fiction--18th century.

French fiction.

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Genre:

Translations.

Signed bindings.

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1 (182, [8] pages, [10] leaves of plates) : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Candide

All for the best

Place of Publication:

New York : for the Bennett Libraries Inc., MDCCCCXXVII [1927]

Notes:

Title page in red and black.

In two parts: Part I at head of title on title page; part II has a separate title page; both title pages have: "Exact reprint of the earliest English Text printed in Holland by Joh. Enschedé en zonen founded in Haarlem anno MDCCIII for the Bennett Libraries."

Part II is not in fact by Voltaire; attributed by Bengesco to Charles-Claude-Florent Thorel de Campigneulles (cf. G. Bengesco, Voltaire, 2354), and more recently to Henri-Joseph Dulaurens (cf. J. Rustin, "Les suites de Candide au XVIIIe siècle," in Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, v.90, 1972, p.1395-1416).

"This edition is limited to 1000 copies, of which numbers 1 to 250 are on special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper; and numbers 251 to 1000 are on papier a la cuve.--page [4].

Local Notes:

Kislak copy is number 130.

Contains:

Thorel de Campigneulles, Charles-Claude-Florent de, 1737-1809. Candide. Seconde parte. English, attributed name.

OCLC:

968710