1763 Candide, ou l’Optimisme Attributed to Voltaire + Part 2, 18th Edition

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Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Par Mr. de Voltaire. Premiere Partie. Edition revue, corrigee & augmentee par l'Auteur. Aux Delices. 1763. 180 pp + 3 pp Table of Contents. Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Traduit de l'Allemand de Mr. Le Docteur Ralph, Seconde Partie. 1761. 98 pp + 2 pp Table of Contents. Full leather binding measures 6 x 3.75". In fair condition. FRONT BOARD DETACHED FROM BINDING - FRONT BOARD IS LOOSE! Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine scuffed; raised bands rubbed; title label LACKING; gilt ruling dulled/rubbed. Edges of text-block speckled red (top edge dulled/soiled). Pencil marginalia on front and rear paste-downs. Front end-page loose. Old-hand ownership signature, in ink, found on top edge of Part I's title page. Normal toning and some sporadic age-staining through text-blocks. Binding of text-block is intact; FRONT BOARD IS LOOSE! Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. The first publication of Candide in January 1759 was a media event: Voltaire’s novel was censored, of course, but it proved to be irrepressible and insuppressible. Before the year was over there had appeared no fewer than seventeen editions all bearing the date 1759. In 1761 Voltaire made some revisions to his novel, in particular expanding chapter 22 (where he adds a dig against Rousseau’s recently published La Nouvelle Héloïse), but he made no significant alterations to the work thereafter. In 1760, an anonymous sequel to Candide appeared, under the title Candide, seconde partie, in which our hero continues his adventures in the Ottoman Empire, Persia and, more surprisingly, Denmark. Voltaire denied authorship of this Seconde partie – but then he had also denied paternity of Candide. The sequel is nowadays attributed to the abbé Henri-Joseph Du Laurens, who earned his living largely by writing anonymous works attributable to Voltaire. Candide, seconde partie was reprinted as a separate brochure twice in 1761, and in that same year it was also published together with Voltaire’s novel, which now came to be called the ‘first part’. Candide continued to appear on its own, without the Du Laurens sequel, in the collected editions of Voltaire’s works that appeared during his lifetime; but after 1761, when the novel was reprinted separately, it routinely incorporated Du Laurens’ Seconde partie: this newly confected Candide in two parts was republished in 1763 (twice), 1769, 1771 (twice), and 1775. First Edition published in 1759, this is an 18th edition. FORN-TUB-0101-LL-2609-HK3952.

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1763 Candide, ou l’Optimisme Attributed to Voltaire + Part 2, 18th Edition
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Voltaire
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