VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle d'Orléans. Heroic comic poem in eightee - Lot 244

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VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle d'Orléans. Heroic comic poem in eightee - Lot 244
VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle d'Orléans. Heroic comic poem in eighteen songs. Non vultus, non color unus. New edition, without fault or defect, increased by an epistle from Father Grisbourdon to Mr de Voltaire, and a judgment on the poem of the Pucelle to M***, with an epigram on the same poem. In London [Cazin], 1780. Volume in-18 of 252 pages, 12.2 x 7.4 cm. Red morocco, gilt roulette around the covers, smooth decorated spine, small iron at the heart, gilt inside roulette, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Edition printed on blue paper and decorated, as in the 1777 edition, with a portrait of Joan of Arc, a frontispiece representing Voltaire sitting and Joan of Arc standing, and 18 pretty engravings of Duflos after drawings by Marillier. This edition is augmented by an epistle from Père Grisbourdon (Jean-Baptiste de Jonquières) to Mr de Voltaire, a judgment on the poem of La Pucelle, and an epigram on the same poem (Ars Erotica 337, Enfer 581, Pia 1192, Ars erotica 337 to 345, Eros Invaincu 35, G.N. dec. n°559, Dutel A-931).
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