Arouet, François-Marie [Voltaire]; Tobias Smollet (Trans.); Antoni Clavé (Ilust.) — Candide, or the Optimist

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania The Franklin Library pp. 154. Slim 8vo. Bound in quarter black leatherette over green cloth over boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine, and boards; two raised bands to spine, three compartments, all edges gilt, marbled papers. Illustrated black-and-white frontispiece accompanied with many additional black-and-white plates, in-text illustrations, vignettes, etc, reproduced from the 1948 Paris Edition as published by Chez Jean Porson. Exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; fine. A lovely edition of this classic.