somewhat grubby and foxed overall
The plates reproduce details from manuscript versions of the work
The English descriptive text is provided by John Scott (author of "A Visit to Paris and "Paris Revisited") and accompanied by a French translation by De La Boissière
Custom-crafted clothbound clamshell
Tillyard's essay "The Personal Heresy in Criticism: A Rejoinder”
Candide or The Optimist Agatha Christie somewhat grubby and foxed overallCandide or The Optimist by M. de Voltaire. London: The Folio Society, 1948. Illustrated by Kenneth Hobson. Translated by Henry Morley. 221 134 14 mm. Pp. [iviii], 1135 [136]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [i], 16, 24, 65, 80, 97 and 112). Type: Bodoni. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Bound by Mackay in quarter black buckram, marbled paper boards. Yellow dust jacket printed in black and colour. The plates were printed lithographically from