Candide Voltaire Folio Society 2011 Signed Limited Leather - Quentin Blake - VGC

Candide Voltaire Folio Society 2011 Signed Limited Leather - Quentin Blake - VGC

£310.99
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Candide Voltaire Folio Society 2011 Signed Limited Leather - Quentin Blake - VGC
Folio Society
Literature

Candide

Voltaire

£310.99
Edition year 2011
Printing year 2011
First edition No
Binding Leather
Illustrator Quentin Blake
Translator Tobias Smollett
Limited edition Yes
Signed Yes
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 205
Dimensions 27.4 × 23.2 cm
Condition Very Good
Condition notes In very good overall condition. No.224, book is like new, slightly faded case.

Edition details

Candide or Optimism by Voltaire. Translated by Tobias Smollett. Introduced by Julian Barnes. Signed and illustrated by Quentin Blake who contributed 17 colour and 28 black & white illustrations. Printed on Modigliani paper. Gilded page tops. Bound in maroon Nigerian goatskin blocked with a gilt cover and spine title design. Dark green endpapers. Grey slipcase emblazoned with gilt title across all sides. 205pp. 27.4x23.2cm. 1000 copies. (£195) (Sold out in 3 weeks)

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About the book

Voltaire's Candide follows a naïve young man who has been taught that everything happens for the best in the best of all possible worlds. A succession of wars, disasters, betrayals and absurd adventures steadily destroys this optimistic philosophy. Fast-paced and sharply satirical, the book attacks religious hypocrisy, political cruelty and philosophical complacency while asking how people can live sensibly in an imperfect world.

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