[CURIOSA]. VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle d'Orléans, poeme, divisé en vingt-un chants, avec les notes de M. de Morza. London, 1775.
In-8, XV, 447 pp. 22 plates: red morocco, smooth ornate spine, green morocco title-piece, gilt fillets and wide lace framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, decorated inner borders, gilt edges (period binding).
Famous edition, illustrated with figures often freely attributed to Desrais.
First edition of 22 engraved plates out of text, all colored at the time.
The title is decorated with a typographical frame, the text with a double frame of black fillets.
A very fine copy in contemporary morocco with lace decoration.
From the library of Floring de Duikingberg, with armorial bookplate (Cohen II, col. 1031: sans me
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