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S.l.n.é. [Londres], [Hoberkon pour Jean Nourse], 1759. 1 vol. (105 x 165 mm) de 299 p. et [1] f. Maroquin rouge foncé, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid, titre doré, date en pied, tranches dorées, doublures de maroquin bleu encadré du même maroquin rouge, large dentelle d'encadrement dorée, étui bordé, double filet sur les coupes (reliure signée de E[mile] et A[ndré] Maylander).Bibliographers have identified 17 different editions of Candide, published with the same title page, on the same date, without the name of a town or mention of a printer or publisher, and in the same format. Which edition is the princeps has long been "one of the most controversial problems in Voltairian bibliography" (Bengesco, I, p. XVII).
Giles Barber, like André Morize, asserts that the problem of textual variants is only a chronological problem in the history of the Genevan edition and that all the 1759 editions are from a single source (cf Giles Barber, Modèle genevois et modèle européen. Le cas de… Read More