Contemporary copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans
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CMV33012
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*KGV (Voltaire. Pucelle. 1762b ) 08-39 (A), ‘La Pucelle d’Orléans : poëme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes : manuscript [not before 1762]’
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Contemporary copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans
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191603041
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Brief Summary:
A contemporary copy of Voltaire’s La Pucelle d’Orleans.
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is copied from the first authorised edition published in Geneva by Cramer in 1762 and consists of 20 cantos.
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320 pp.
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Height: 230 mm
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1
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Bound in 18th-century dark red morocco, gilt. The MS is contained within a dark red morocco pull-off case by Riviere & Son.
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Illustrated with 20 pen and ink ornamental drawings appearing as tailpieces at end of each canto, each inscribed “Leguay fecit”; from an unidentified source. Several incorporate mythological subjects, e.g. Hercules and the hydra, Perseus and Andromeda, Leda and the swan, Mars and Venus, Diana and Endymion.
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Owned by Mortimer L. Schiff.
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