THE ROMANCES OF VOLTAIRE. The Library of Living Classics.

Voltaire, 1694-1778. H.I. Woolf; R. Bruce Boswell (translators). Manuel Komroff (series editor). Lincoln MacVeagh, 1890-1972 (publisher).

Published by New York - Toronto: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press - Longmans, Green & Company, 1928.

About this Item

[10], 350 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16.25cm. No dust jacket. Art Deco influenced green pebbled leather binding; unfortunate surface loss to leather at spine heel with much scuffing/wear along joints and at board edges particularly at corners; spine leather quite darkened but with gilt stamping still fairly bright; triangular black leather and gilt stamping to slightly darkened front board; undecorated green rear board slightly darkened with some discoloration occurring along joint margin. All edges gilt; staining and some scuffing loss to bottom edge gilt. Floral patterned endpapers; front and rear free endpapers have strong bands of toning at top, bottom and fore-edge margins caused by respective board's leather overlaps on pastedowns. Impression from past bookseller's erased pencil note at top of front flyleaf recto; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Only a good copy per the adverse exterior spine cosmetics. Brief Acknowledgements essay states "The translation of 'The Princess of Babylon' is by H. I. Woolf . . . The translations of 'Candide,' 'Zadig' and the other romances were done by R. Bruce Boswell originally for Bohn's famous classical library." Table of Contents cites slightly different pagination than what is actually presented which, via collation, is precisely: "Candide" (pages 1-95), "Zadig" (pages 97-170), "The Princess of Babylon" (pages 171-233), "The Child of Nature" (pages 235-304), "Micromegas" (pages 305-325), "Cosi-Sancta" (pages 327-334), "Memnon" (pages 335-342), and "The One-Eyed Porter" (pages 343-350).

Seller Inventory # PXZP-16210

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ROMANCES OF VOLTAIRE. The Library of Living Classics.
• Publisher: New York - Toronto: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press - Longmans, Green & Company, 1928.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature