Candide;

Collection Data

Names
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 (Translator)
Voltaire, 1694-1778 (Author)
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 (Illustrator)
Salter, Stefan (Book designer)
Gerlach, Gerhard, 1907-1968 (Binder)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1944 (Questionable)
Place: New York
Publisher: Pantheon Books, Inc.
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: MEM (Klee) (Voltaire, F. M. A. de. Candide)
Topics
Europe -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Genres
Illustrations
Notes
Content: "This edition ... is limited to 625 copies. It was designed by Stefan Salter and printed and bound by H. Wolff, New York. Copies 1 to 50 are accompanied by two sets of separate prints of the illustrations and bound by hand by Gerhard Gerlach, New York"--Colophon (unnumbered page following page 120).
Content: "Grateful acknowledgment is made to E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, for permission to reprint Dr. Smollett's translation in the special revision by James Thornton, as published in Everyman's library"--Title page verso.
Content: Without date of publication. The Everyman's library edition (Candide, and other tales) was first published in 1937. Stefan Salter, the book designer, began working for Pantheon Books in 1943. See: Gerald Cinamon, German graphic designers during the Hitler period, published online at: http://www.germandesigners.net/designers/stefan_salter
Content: The sets of separate prints of the illustrations accompanying copies 1 to 50 are printed respectively on white and yellow chine; housed in a pocket inside back cover.
Content: Copy in MEM (Klee): With the 2 suites of the illustrations, in pocket inside back cover; bound in quarter red morocco and gray cloth. Lacks colophon leaf.
Statement of responsibility: Voltaire ; with twenty-six illustrations by Paul Klee
Physical Description
Extent: Copies numbered 1 to 50: 120 pages : 26 illustrations ; 26 cm + 2 suites (52 prints : reproduction of drawings, black and white ; sheet 13 x 18 cm)
Binding: Copies numbered 1 to 50: Publisher's quarter red morocco and gray cloth, by Gerhard Gerlach; gilt lettering on front cover and spine.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13298609
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8aed6da0-c609-012f-bb36-58d385a7bc34
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