Candide, or, Optimism
By: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire ; translated from the French by Richard Aldington, with an introduction by Paul Morand and twenty illustrations in colour by Sylvain Sauvage.
Contributors: Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 tr.; Morand, Paul, 1888-1976.; Sauvage, Sylvain. ill.
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Other titles: Candide; Optimism
Work titles: Candide.
Description: An optimistic, sheltered young man slowly learns the ways of the world and eventually comes to a more pragmatic point of view.
Notes: "This edition ... has been composed in Monotype Cochin at the Fanfare Press, London to the design of Francis Meynell. It was printed at the Imprimerie Protat Frères at Mâcon in France on paper especially made at the Rives mills, and the illustrations ... were reproduced by G. Duval and the Imprimerie Beaufumé in Paris."--Colophon.