Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE,…

Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE, illustrator. < >
  • Another image of Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE, illustrator.
  • Another image of Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE, illustrator.
  • Another image of Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE, illustrator.
  • Another image of Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE, illustrator.
  • Another image of Candide ou l’Optimisme. by VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Sylvain SAUVAGE, illustrator.

~ Candide ou l’Optimisme. Paris: [Frazier-Soye and Paul Haasen for] the artist and A. Maillart 1928.

4to (280 × 220 mm), pp. [6], 157, [7] including frontispiece and title, 54 etched illustrations and vignettes by Sauvage (including the cover), hand-coloured, numerous decorative initials printed in red and black. Uncut in original pictorial wrappers, chemise and slipcase. An excellent copy.

One of 237 copies (number 211, one of 185 on Vélin de Montval). Sylvain Sauvage ws the pseudonym of the artist Félix Roy (1888-1948). He later illustrated the Nonesuch edition of Candide. Worldcat lists no copies outside continental Europe.

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