VOLTAIRE. MALASSIS, Edmond., Candide.

Paris, L. Carteret, 1922. Large quarto (28 x 21 cm), blank folios, (4)-143 pp., 2 blank folios, colour plates. Contemporary red morocco, ribbed spine, author’s name, title and date gilded, gilded borders and scrolls in the spandrels of the panels, large fillet motif, dotted patterns and scrolls in the spandrels on the covers, inner covers lined with pine-patterned morocco stamped with a large gilt plate in the style of Duseuil, framed by gilt fillets and a gilt roulette, double gilt fillets on the edges, red silk endpapers, double vellum endpapers, guilloché headbands, gilt edges on endpapers, cover and spine preserved, housed in a half-bound slipcase with bands and flaps, the whole housed in a marbled slipcase with morocco bias binding [G. Mercier, successor to his father, 1928] (case slightly scuffed).

Estimate:$443.63

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