Title: The maid of Orleans, or La Pucelle of Voltaire. Translated into English verse; with notes, explanatory, critical, historical, and biographical. By W.H. Ireland, member of The Atheneum of Sciences and Arts at Paris. In two volumes. Vol. I
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of two volumes in 8vo. pp. 4, li (xlviii incorrectly numbered lxviii), 288. Morocco janséniste by Bradstreet. Bookplates of Richard Philip Hart Durkee. Extra-illustrated with portraits and plates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This surprisingly scarce two-volume verse translation of Voltaire’s racy mock-epic La pucelle by the former Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) remains, in its 1899 adaptation by Ernest Dowson, the best-known version in English.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4656315" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>