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La Pucelle d'Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes

Title
La Pucelle d'Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes : manuscript [not before 1762]
Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.

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Additional Authors
  • Leguay.
  • Vaillant, Paul, -1802.
  • Martin J. Gross Collection.
Description
1 ill.; 23 cm. (4to)
Summary
Copied from the 1st authorized ed. published in Geneva by Cramer, 1762, which included the edition statement quoted above; cf. Vercruysse, J. Pucelle d'Orléans, bib. descriptive (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 7, p. 97-122), 24 SL 1762.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Drawings – France – 18th century.
  • Ink drawings – France – 18th century.
Note
  • "Nouvelle edition, corrigée, augmentée & collationnée sur le manuscrit de l'auteur. MDCCLXII"--T.p.
  • Pagination: [4], V, [1], 309, [1] p.
  • In ink, in an unidentified hand.
  • Illustrated with 20 pen and ink ornamental drawings appearing as tailpieces at end of each canto, each inscribed "Leguay fecit"; from an unidentified source. Several incorporate mythological subjects, e.g. Hercules and the hydra, Perseus and Andromeda, Leda and the swan, Mars and Venus, Diana and Endymion.
  • Mounted on front pastedown: Voltaire. Letter : Chateau de Ferney, to Mr. [Paul] Vaillant, 1764 Oct. 14. 1 p. Holograph signed, in English. Entreating the addressee "to send this little brief to the author of the Monthly review." Published in Voltaire's Correspondence and related documents, v. 28, p. 162, no. D12142 (Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 112).
Provenance (note)
  • Ex libris Mortimer L. Schiff (morocco book label). Letter only: Sotheby sale, London, Apr. 2, 1928, p. 102, lot 537.
Binding (note)
  • Binding: 18th-century dark red morocco, gilt; in dark red morocco pull-off case by Riviere & Son.
Call Number
*KGV (Voltaire. Pucelle. 1762b) 08-39
OCLC
191603041
Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Title
La Pucelle d'Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes : manuscript [not before 1762]
Binding
Binding: 18th-century dark red morocco, gilt; in dark red morocco pull-off case by Riviere & Son.
Provenance
Ex libris Mortimer L. Schiff (morocco book label). Letter only: Sotheby sale, London, Apr. 2, 1928, p. 102, lot 537.
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Added Author
Leguay. Illustrator
Vaillant, Paul, -1802. Correspondent
Schiff, Mortimer L. Former owner
Martin J. Gross Collection.
Research Call Number
*KGV (Voltaire. Pucelle. 1762b) 08-39
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