French Literature - Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme [...],...

Hammer

£110

French Literature - Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme [...], Nouvelle Édition, [illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage], A. Maillart, Paris 1928, 157pp + [iii], illustrated throughout with hand-coloured copperplate etchings, some erotic, woodblock vignettes, half-morocco and marbled boards, Art Deco pictorial mask surmounting the title descending down the spine, marbled endpapers, brown paper modesty wrap, 4to; Maupassant (Guy de), Douze Contes, illustrés par Mariette Lydis, Govone Éditeur, Buenos Aires 1947, 137pp, loose in marbled folder, conforming marbled slipcase with tooled and gilt red leather title label, short folio (2)