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VOLTAIRE, [François Marie Arouet De] [1694-1778].
La Pucelle D'Orléans Poème En Vingt Un Chants.
Paris: Didot Le Jeune, L'An Troisième [1795].
2 Volumes. 4to. pp. 211; 212. with half-titles. engraved frontis. portrait of Jeanne d'Arc by Gaucher, & 21 engraved plates by, engraved by A very tall fine crisp copy on thick paper (deckle edge visible on some leaves, bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt backs, all edges gilt (some surface scarring to covers, but still a very nice copy). First Edition with these Illustrations, the frontispiece portrait of Jeanne d'Arc by Gaucher, and the other twenty-one plates engraved by Bacquoy, Choffard, Delignon, Delvaux, Duhamel, Dupréel, Lemire, Lingée, Malbeste, Patas, Pauquet, Ponce, and Romanet after designs by Lebarbier, Marillier, Monnet and Monsiau. "Très belle édition." (Cohen-De Ricci) Cohen-De Ricci 1034. Brunet V 1362. Bengesco 513.

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VOLTAIRE, [François Marie Arouet] de [1694-1778].
Dictionnaire Portatif Et Philosophique.
Paris: Henri Babou, [1928]..
4to. pp. 132, [3]. numerous text illus. with pochoir hand-colouring. original coloured pictorial wrs. (short tears in upper & lower spine, slight discolouration from bookmark on title & half-title). First Edition Illustrated by Jacques Touchet, Limited to 350 copies, this one of 330 on Arches. "No one of Voltaire's works shows his anti-religious or at least anti-ecclesiastical animus more strongly. The various title-words of the several articles are often the merest stalking-horses, under cover of which to shoot at the Bible or the Church, the target being now and then shifted to the political institutions of the writer's country, his personal foes, &c..". (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) The book was officially condemned and ordered to be burned. Carteret IV 406.
$401 USD Book Number: elala167 Order / Enquire

VOLTAIRE, [François Marie Arouet] de [1694-1778].
L'Homme Aux Quarante Écus.
Paris: René Kieffer, 1925..
8vo. pp. numerous text illus. with pochoir hand-colouring. contemporary half morocco, original coloured pictorial wrs. bound in. First Edition Illustrated by Joseph Hémard, Limited to 500 copies, this one of 480 on vélin de cuve. One of the few of Voltaire's works to deal with a distinctly economic subject. Directed against the Physiocrats, and specifically Mercier De La Rivière's Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés, the witty and sarcastic tale takes its title from Mercier's statement that in an organized state according to the physiocratic doctrine, an average sum of forty crowns should suffice for the existence of each citizen. Voltaire singles out for special ridicule the proposed 'impot unique', or single tax on land. The story revolves around the owner of a small estate yielding an annual net income of forty crowns, who is alarmed at the promulgation of several edicts "by a few gentlemen who, having some leisure, have undertaken to govern the kingdom from their firesides". According to them the government "being by divine- and birth-right co-proprietor of his land, he at least owes it one-half of his income", and that "as all wealth proceeds from land, land is to bear the whole burden of taxation." Carteret IV 406.
$599 USD Book Number: elala168 Order / Enquire

WAIN, Louis.
Louis Wain's Annual 1910-11.
London: George Allen & Sons, [1910]..
8vo. pp. xii, 96, [xiii]-xvi. 10 colour plates (2 tipped-in) & numerous text illus. of anthropomorphic cats. pictorial wrs. (extremities chipped).
$300 USD Book Number: dola2531 Order / Enquire

WALEY, Arthur.
Translations From The Chinese.Illustrated By Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge.
New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1941..
4to. pp. 9 p.l., 325, [1 leaf]. 10 colour plates & numerous text illus. original cloth. in slightly worn slipcase.
$103 USD Book Number: ILEanWAL84 Order / Enquire

WARD, Lynd.
Madman's Drum A Novel In Woodcuts.
New York: Jonathan Cape, Harrison Smith, [1930]..
8vo. 199 woodcut scenes. several woodcut ornaments. A very good copy in quarter brown cloth. dw. (dw. stained, with chipped edges & holes in spine). First Edition.
$350 USD Book Number: dola154 Order / Enquire

WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.with Water-colour Drawings by Henry Varnum Poor and an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939..
4to. pp. ix, 145, [1 leaf]colophon. title vignette & 19 other illus. (most full-page) in black & green. A very good copy in original gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. without the slipcase. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by the Illustrator Poor. Designed and printed on Worthy special paper by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, set in linotype Original Old Style, illustrations printed in collotype by Duenewald Printing Corporation, NY, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY. LEC Quarto-Millenary 109.
$308 USD Book Number: IARhaWHA16 Order / Enquire

WHITE, Gilbert.
The Natural History Of Selborne.With drawings by John Nash R.A. and an introduction by The Earl Of Cranbrook.
[Del Mar, California]: Printed by W.S.Crowell Ltd, Ispwich, for the members of The Limited Edition Club, 1972..
4to. pp. 275, [1]. 16 colour plates & 16 text illus. quarter calf. slipcase (bit worn). Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the Artist.
$308 USD Book Number: IITeWHIT26 Order / Enquire

WHITMAN, Walt.
Leaves Of Grass Selected And With An Introduction By Christopher Morley Illustrations By Lewis C. Daniel.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940..
4to. pp. xiii, 316, [1]. 30 plates (several colour). buckram (covers faded & owner's name on front blank).
$77 USD Book Number: IITavWHI19 Order / Enquire

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
The Poems.Selected And Edited With A Commentary By Louis Untermeyer And Illustrated With Pencil Drawings By R.J.Holden.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1945..
4to. pp. xx, 333, [1 leaf]colophon. each page ruled in red. 38 plates & illus. (incl. frontis. portrait). original morocco (piece chipped from upper front joint, internally very good), without the slipcase. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed by the Illustrator Holden. Designed by A.G.Hoffman and Robert L.Dothard, composition by E.L.Hildreth and Company, Brattleboro, Vermont, printed on Worthy special paper by Aldus printers, NY, set in intertype Waverley, illustrations printed by Photogravure and Color Company, NY, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY. LEC Quarto-Millenary 171.
$154 USD Book Number: IITeWHIT46 Order / Enquire

[WIGHT, J.].
Sunday In London.With A Copy Of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill.
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833..
8vo. pp. iv, 105, [1]. 11 full-page wood engravings & 3 vignettes (1 repeated on the title). later full calf by Riviere, gilt back & inside dentelles, t.e.g., original printed wrs. bound in (joints rubbed). First Edition. Cohn 846.
$400 USD Book Number: elala212 Order / Enquire

WILDE, Oscar [1854-1900].
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol.
London: [Printed by Mandruck A. G., Munich for] Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1924 recte 1925]..
8vo. pp. 57, [9]. numerous woodcuts (some full-page) by Frans Masereel. tipped-in bibliographical note. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt (some light wear, small chip in outer edge of frontis., ownership entry on front blank & 2 bookplates). Limited to 50 numbered copies.
$750 USD Book Number: elala5423 Order / Enquire

WILDE, Oscar.
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol.Introduction By Burton Rascoe And Lithographs By Zhenya Gay.
New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Barbor Press, 1937..
4to. pp. 1 p.l., 42. 8 lithographed plates (incl. frontis.). roan (rubbed, spinal extremities chipped). in a defective slipcase.
$205 USD Book Number: ILDeWILD2 Order / Enquire

WILKINSON, Norman (Artist) & HILLS, John Waller.
A Summer On The Test.
London: Philip Alan & Co., [1924]..
4to. pp. xiii, [1 leaf], 198, [1 leaf]. 12 drypoints by Norman Wilkinson (incl. frontis.). with captioned tissue guards. text illus. & printer's device at end. Uncut in original cloth. First Edition, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the Author (Total Edition: 325).
$1730 USD Book Number: IHISu& H42 Order / Enquire

WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
A Streetcar Named Desire With a Foreword by Jessica Tandy and an Introduction by the Author Illustrations by.
New York: Limited Editions Club [Printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press, Hadley], 1982..
folio. [pp. 191]. original 4 colour lithographed frontis. printed by George J. Goodstadt of New York on Rives paper & 6 original 2-colour etchings. original quarter morocco over hand-screened floral fabric side. (vertical paper flaw to upper margin of one leaf). in slightly soiled slipcase (soiled & corners worn). Edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies, signed by the Artist.
$410 USD Book Number: ILLStWIL31 Order / Enquire

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