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Voltaire,(F.M.A.De).

La Pucelle d'Orléans. Poème en vingt-et-un chants. (Reprint of the edition "Londres" (i.e. Paris, Cazin) 1780). 2 in 1 vol. (Rouen, Ch.Hérissey for J.Lemonnyer 1880). Gr.8°. 2 pp., VIII, 185 p., 1 leaf; 2 pp., 197 p., 1 leaf with title in red and black and with 2 engraved frontispieces. Frontispiece, 2 engraved title vignettes. Title vignettes and 21 engraved text vignettes. Text vignettes by (Jean) Duplessis-Bertaux. Wine-red cloth d. (1 joint cracked in both volumes). Vicaire II, 950-95. Cf. Ars Erotica II, pp. 289 ff (7 identical motifs), Cohen-R. 1029 ff. and Sander 2020 - One 150 on "Papier de Hollande". Altogether only 354 copies published for subscribers. - With excellent illustrations by the Parisian painter and etcher J. Duplessis-Bertaux (1747-1820) who here "knows how to give the most delicate effects within the frame of quite small head vignettes" (Fürstenberg p. 118). - Internally a fine copy with wide margins.

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Voltaire,(F.M.A.de).

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