Presentation copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans
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CMV32969
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*KGV (Voltaire. Pucelle. 1750 ) 08-40, ‘La Pucelle d’Orleans : poëme heroïcomique : manuscript, [175-?] / par Mr. de Voltaire’
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Presentation copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans
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191602893
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Brief Summary:
A manuscript copy of Voltaire’s La Pucelle d’Orleans.
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This copy has 15 cantos and corresponds to the earliest printed (unauthorised) edition of 1755. A provenance note on the front endpaper suggests that this copy was owned by Voltaire and gifted to a prince.
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17 pp.
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Height: 240 mm
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2
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Each page has a border ruled in red. There are four blank leaves at the beginning and twenty-one at the end.
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An unidentified hand has added the following incription to the verso side of the free front endpaper: ‘Rare manuscript formerly the property of Mr. de Voltaire, who presented it to one of the Royal Princes, before it was printed.’ A second inscription of the front flyleaf is no longer legible, except for the phrase ‘à Londres’. The bookplates of Sanlot de Bospin, fermier genéral and Roberti Marchionis de Crewe have been added to the MS.
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