La pucelle d'Orléans
Subtitle: poëme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes
Contributors: Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, illustrator; Stetson, John B., Jr. (John Batterson), 1884-1952, former owner; Hans M. Cramer (Firm); Jeanne d'Arc Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library); Charles E. Lauriat Co; Jacob Berger collection (Columbia University)
Edition: Nouvelle edition, corrigée, augmentée & collationnée sur le manuscript de l'auteur.
Publisher: [Cramer]
Published: 1762
Place of publication: Geneva]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Poetry
Notes: Anonymous; by Voltaire.

"C'est la première édition avouée par l'auteur ... Le chant XX est une version presque entièrement nouvelle du chant XV de 1755, ou XVIII de 1756" (cf. Quérard; Bengasco).

"Préface de don Apuleius Risorius, bénédictin [i.e. Voltaire]."

Place and name of publisher from Bibliothèque nationale.

The plate designs attributed to Gravelot.

With a half-title.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces.

Numbering 273-276 omitted in pagination.

Signatures: pi² *⁴ A-Y⁸ Z1.

Rare Book (BOOKART) copy: Bound in full mottled calf, sewn on three supports; upper and lower covers with gold-tooled fillet borders; spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments, with a lettering piece; turn-ins gilt with decorative rolls; board edges gilt with a double-line fillet; decorated endpapers; three-color silk endbands sewn with a front bead; all edges gilt; signed "Bound by Worsfold" and "Chas. E. Lauriat Co., Boston" on upper flyleaf.

Rare Book (BOOKART) copy: From the library of John B. Stetson, Jr., with his armorial bookplate.

Bengasco, G. Voltaire, 488

Quérard, J.M. France littéraire, v. 10, p. 306

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 64140

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale: auteurs, CCXIV-II, column 903

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.