Description

• Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism
• Limited edition [#746 of 1000] published by Folio Society [London, 2011]
• Illustrated and signed by Quentin Blake
• Both black and white, and colour illustrations in Blake’s distinctive and wonderfully scrappy style
• French satire originally published 1759
• Translated by Tobias Smollett; introduced by Julian Barnes
• Goatskin leather with blocked gold title in Blake-style lettering
• A magnificent copy in fine condition in the like slipcase