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VOLTAIRE.
The Maid of Orléans, a poem in twenty-one cantos.
London, 1780. (Paris, Cazin, c. 1793).
Fees include commission and taxes.
The Maid of Orléans, a poem in twenty-one cantos.
London, 1780. (Paris, Cazin, c. 1793).
2 volumes in 18mo format, (3) leaves, including a frontispiece, 218 pp. and (2) leaves, 180 pp. Burnt orange morocco, spine with decorated raised bands, title labels in havana and volume numbers in blue, place and date stamped at the bottom of the spine, compartments decorated with gilt ironwork and gilt fillets, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, lace on the headbands, in a marbled slipcase [Chambolle-Duru] (plates uniformly slightly oxidised).
Brissart-Bonet, Cazin, 83. Cohen, 1032–1033.
A charming edition illustrated by Duplessis-Bertaux with a frontispiece and 21 headpieces, bound in an elegant small morocco.
A limited-edition reprint produced around 1870 of the 1780 Cazin edition, here on tinted laid paper, with the plates on vellum paper.
Finely illustrated with 21 vignettes, by Marillier, at the top of the page, engraved in black by Duflos, as well as an unsigned frontispiece on heavy paper, also by Marillier.
Copy filled with black copper engravings, free or very free, opposite the frontispiece, and 18 unsigned erotic plates engraved on copper.
CURIOSA.