Candide
By: Voltaire ; with twenty-six illustrations by Paul Klee
Contributors: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771, translator; Thornton, James, 1906-1969, editor; Klee, Paul, 1879-1940, illustrator; Gerlach, Gerhard, 1907-1968, binder; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc.
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Notes: Dr. Smollett's translation with special revisions by James Thorton. cf. t.p. verso.

"This edition is limited to 625 copies ... designed by Stefan Salter ... Copies 1 to 50 are accompanied by two sets of separate prints of the illustrations and bound by hand by Gerhard Gerlach, New York."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy 2: No. 2, with two sets of separate prints of the illustrations in an enclosure attached to rear pastedown.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy 2: Bound in quarter leather with cloth sides; gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.