Record ID:
346705
Accession number:
MA 8654
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 item (308, [14] p.) : ill. ; 17.2 cm
Notes:
Title and date from ms. t.p.
Manuscript copy in an unknown hand of Voltaire's Candide; evidently a copy of a published volume, with manuscript title page, date, running titles, and signatures (i.e.: a-m¹²n¹⁰) transcribed from a printed copy of the work. Date in Roman numerals on t.p. reads "M. DCC. LXXI.". Text paginated [1]-308, followed by 14 unsigned and crudely executed full-page pen-and ink drawings at end of volume, chiefly depicting landscapes with castles, trees, and figures.
Binding:
Brown calf, spine tooled in gilt.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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